Always There Are The Children

and always there are the children there will be children in the heat of day there will be children in the cold of winter children like a quilted blanket are welcomed in our old age children like a block of ice to a desert sheik are signs of status in our youth we feed the children with our culture that they might understand our travail we nourish the children on our gods that they may understand respect we urge the children on the tracks that our race will not fall short but our children are not ours nor we theirs they are future we are past how do we welcome the future not with the colonialism of the past for that is our problem not with the racism of the past for that is their problem not with the fears of our own status for history is lived not dictated we welcome the young of all groups as our own with the solid nourishment of food and warmth we prepare the way with the solid nourishment of self-actualization we implore all the young to prepare for the young because always there will be children.