YOUTH

Kaleidoscopic dreams and visions

With reckless abandonment

And delusions of lasting love and romantic fantasy.

Innocence, still believing in their fellow man

For not yet have they suffered the betrayal

Of trusting with their naivete.

Too young to yet fear death

Or experience its’ heartbreaking reality

For invincible is the youth in their virility.

Rainbows still bring hope of a pot of gold

And wishes granted with the find of four-leaf clovers

Oh, but oh ...

How quickly they must grow up in this present world.