Poem September 4, 2017 ISSUE

Welcoming the children

Robert Tokheim

Who or what exactly are the children that we see?Is their origin in embryo or in maturity?Is it just supposititious human life we’re seeing,Or representatives of God—the very origin of being?

Will we listen as a little child, with hearts receptive?Will we greet the new and drop the old, the views deceptive?Will we welcome innocence, and love the childlike thought—Embrace man’s purity and sweetness, in the way that Jesus taught?

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