Innocence

Innocence
Knows no boundaries
Knows no hatreds
Knows no wars

But it is not all coy smiles
Happiness wrapped
In a best friend’s warm arms

Even the innocents
Know hunger

Even the innocents learn fear

I would wrap these two up
Protect them from such lessons

But mine is the world
They should learn
To fear

The world men made
The world men maintain
A world not made
For innocence