A child's ideals
dominate your thoughts
Seeing the virtues of all.
You're like a puppy set free
Seeking to obliterate the cruel.
Afraid to wait for growth
Yet anxious to change
Is the warm tender showing of youth.
Keep these ideals
within your heart
They will help you later on
In coping with Reality
and contemplating Truth.
Lynne Milum
July 1979
