Age of Innocence
Him: I hate all these
kids
nowadays, crying over
Justine Bieber!
Don’t they know that
there are actual issues
to be concerned with?
Me: Calm down, they’re
young,
the terrors of the world
will hit them
soon enough.
The next day we all watched
in horror as a madman
gunned down 5-year-olds
and stole the sweet butterfly chasing
innocence of an entire community of children.
We know violence, brass knuckles, blood, death
as adults watching others
too often with weary eyes
waiting for them to strike.
Yet we try to shield children
from the news of planes flying into towers.
We are left to to figure out how to explain
cops, vigilantes, and madmen
killing unarmed citizens
and stealing loved ones from their families.
I miss not having to worry
about the world
destroying our innocence.
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