If * Poem by Laurence Overmire

If *

When you look into your child's eyes
You do not see the future

Then

You have not understood
The meaning

Of your place in the Universe.

~ Laurence Overmire

(Previously published in The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action, Indelible Mark Publishing,2012)

Laurence Overmire
Saturday, September 28, 2024
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