Children

All my precious little gems

how in my heart you shine

you were all a gift from God

that I could love all time

 

In the natural order

you'd have been home with me

but the system works against

all the ties of family

 

Before I worked the System

to myself I had you all

my heart has long remained there

before the system I did fall

 

I read you Hiawatha

by the fireplace at night

beside the book of bible stories

to give your minds insight

 

answered questions and we counted

pinto beans and popcicle sticks

had friends with lots of children

and a social life betwixted 

 

pleasant were the nights and days

I could hug and boo boo's kiss

but upon the eve of workdays

it was silence that I wished

 

Problems had grown to mountains

the obsticles to peace that last

there was no place that I could turn

for understanding could I ask

 

I would have shown you the cosmos

and the patterns of Mandelbrot 

watched the meteors when passing

and the lakes where the rains do drop

 

Would've climbed every mountain path

and into the canyons walked

a magnifying glass to plants

of life's mysteries have talked

 

You have excelled my expectations

your resilliency do I astound

your minds and hearts have exceeded

of course and problems turned around

 

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