Reversals of Childish Thinking
Instead of listing what’s wrong with the world
Let’s list what we could do to make it strong
Childishly simple is the integrity on which we set our pride
Is it so hard not to lie, steal, cheat, defile with words
That simply are not right?
Treat others like you would want to be treated
We preach to our children
Unadorned ideas that we cannot follow ourselves
At times it seems
As humans progress, from child to adolescent
To adult, then back again
It’s a reversal in time
From complete innocence to corruptness
Why does it take us a whole lifetime
To come back to the mentality
In which we started
It’s only once we see, truly
The best times is when
We don’t judge
And things are just so
Childishly simple
That we are happy
Copyright © Bella Cardenas | Year Posted 2007
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