Purity Of Heart

When I was a child
I thought as a child
Now that I am grown
My thoughts have developed,
From innocence to cynicism,
From trusting to guarded.
We teach children the dream of love
Yet they learn by example,
Develop by experience
The world is hard and cold.
We learn to throw naivety aside
Simple trust to that earned.
The concept of love is lofty
It is spoken, sang, dreamnt, proclaimed
Yet never seems to grab hold.
We go from simple and pure
To complicated and tarnished.
Let us recycle the dream
Seek once again purity of heart
See it in ourselves first.
To block out the darkness about
Children live in the promise
For they are born of love.
Sad to see a child weighed down
With burdens not their own,
Taught this is the way to life
When they were right all along.
God honors the heart of a child
They know unconditional love.
Let us seek again purity of heart.