Copyright 2025 by Michael Walker
I don't want you
To grow up
And embrace
This hatred
Your guileless eyes
And smile
Should be the way
Forward
Always always
But how?
When the moneychangers
Drive Jesus now
From
The Temple
And a muddy pen
Destroys
Everything…
I don't want you
To grow up
Thinking
The earth
Is flat
And maps
Destroy us.
Don’t want you to grow up
Surrounded
By
Dragons…
That should not be
Your future.