Innocence

Mar 23, 2008 - 14:17 PM PST

Ah innocence
Your blinding light of childlike faith
Masks the underlying darkness.
But your time will come.
The rain will fall.
The scars and scorns of time
Will tarnish your youthful luster.
Were you but older, wiser,
A well-traveled vagabond
Armed with the wounds of experience.
Then would your steps fall straight
And the apparitions of this present struggle
Force contrition to the past.

12/13/2006