Do you know?

Dear child come sit with me,
let's discuss humanity.

Do you yet know who you are?
Can you see inside that far?

What is it your heart desires?
Have you laid the founding fires?

Why is it you've come to be?
Are you yearning yourself free?

Where do you think you should be heading?
Ever forward or only treading?

Dear child come walk with me,
let's experience humanity.

Reviews

[Tania Leigh]

Questions that some of us in our adult lives still struggle to answer....

I love the opening here, and by placing it again at the end with a slight variation allowed the poem to come full circle. The reader gets the sense that the speaker has taken the child under his wing to guide him/her.

Nice work!