Children Questioning Poem by RoseAnn V. Shawiak

Showering our lives are precious children of all ages and nationalities,
so pure and innocent, questioning everything around them, wanting to
know how things work and why they do.

Wonder and awe filling their minds, eyes and hearts so translucently
and vividly, touching and feeling everything, using all their senses
in order to blend their surroundings with what they're finding out.

Stretching imaginations and intellect, making paths open ever wider
through moments of curiosity and wonder, loving to see these children
wanting and eager to learn about everything.

If only they could continue in this way throughout their lives, how
much more they can learn about the world around them, but alas, their
parents and other adults look down on it and strip it all away.

Taking and crushing their curiosity, leaving them with a mediocre
stance of learning for the rest of their lives, having had their
innocence and purity of heart killed by adults narrow mindedness.

Leaving them in a place of total absence, curiosity, questioning,
sensing life is no longer being used as they grow up to be like
their parents.

Other adults also influencing them, never supporting or encourag-
ing them, ending their once intense curiosity, wonder and awe of
everything in life that was important.