Once Their Innocence Is Shot

ONCE THIER INNOCENCE HAS BEEN SHOT One of my favorite qualities in children…of which they are innately blessed is the enthusiastic, unbridles innocence…which they all possess. Children will sing because they’re happy…they’ll make up words to their own song. Children will spontaneously start dancing whenever music comes along. Children will draw upon a canvas before they realize…it’s a wall. Children will climb as high as they can before they realize…they can fall. Children will run naked before they realize…there’s such a thing as shame. And until we teach them differently…children treat everyone the same. Our children need to be nurtured and protected…so their innocence can soar but that’s not a job for children…that’s what adults are for. So we ban books…ban learning the truth about our history…ban talking about our differences because our children’s innocence…we wouldn’t want to bruise it! While at the same time allowing anyone to carry a gun…and praying they won’t use it! Some people might think this is protecting our children’s innocence…But I, for one, do not…for how can their innocence survive…once their innocent has been shot? So there is really no reason to ban books… or history… or acceptance as long as guns we think we all need them… because soon… there will be no children left to accept our differences no children left to learn our history… and when it comes to books… they’ll be no children left to read them.