Looking Through a Child's Eyes

Looking through a child’s eyes

The need to be loved and envied

Hungry for knowledge like college

Eager to feed the why's within me

Through life I speed never knowing

What passes me and what I pass

Going too fast to see the blades in the grass

Not paying attention and I end up on my ass

Again and again and again

But I get up stronger

Hope to stand up a little longer

Because I know the evil that awaits me

If I slip and fall whether small or tall

It still hurts the same....

 

Looking through a child’s eyes

Eager to make a mark on the world

So my name can be remembered

More than for the fact that I was born in December

Maybe because I helped the one who helped me…

When life was low for me or them

Even if it be foe or friend

I can’t begin to acknowledge the world around me

Until I know the one before me

Move the people that tore me

From inside and out

When they thought I had doubts about …

 

Lookin’ through a child’s eyes

Filled with the need to be embraced

To understand this place

Where it seems love has been erased

One side speaks of peace

No side keeping the pace

Of the race that’s down to a dwindle

All because we tryin’ to swindle

God out of a good life

But not willing to pay the price

Because hatred is out of bounds

What do we do now?

 

Lookin through a child’s eyes

Love will be in place

Hatred will be erased

Brothers and sistas will hold hands

Like they did in Candyland

Wrong will turn right

Mamas will sleep at night

We will win the fight

There will be no more war

People will answer the door

And won’t take it no more!

 

Lookin through a child’s eyes….