To Laugh as an Innocent Child

Oh to laugh

to have a day of joy

but the world will not allow it

When will I learn to leave the news behind

all trace of it

A better question

How can I leave it behind

There has been so much of the bad

my spirit has been beaten with

Each item ingrained within me

An attempt to shelter myself

leaves me with the memories

My task must be to go forward

without depressing over that which is behind

It was written

that nothing from without

that enters into a man

can defile him

Yet I cannot move past

the inhumanity of today's world

There is no escape

from what I have seen and heard

Will we ever together find joy

and laugh as an innocent child