Innocence is Forever Fleeting

Innocence is Forever Fleeting

My beautiful son, 

I wish I could view the world through your eyes

Innocence is forever fleeting

all day, everyday

May love be your anchor.

The perfect storm has taken me

but provided the waters for you to be 

My tears cannot wash away your troubles

nor will they erase my faults

but let them fill your well

so they may cushion your fall

let them hydrate your strength

my beautiful son.

I wish I could see the world through your eyes

Whatever was good in me now is with you

True gifts cannot be wrapped

nor purchased with gold

They stem from hearts, spreading through souls

but innocence is forever fleeting

all day, everyday

May love be your contribution, my beautiful son.

I bear the blame for the burdens you will carry

Treat the world with kindness

regardless its rotation

Never lose sight of your most precious dreams

be the change you want to see

Tolerate with the knowledge, evil exists

resist it with your entire existence

and may you carry on

my beautiful son.

"Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards"

---Soren Kierkegaard