BY GLORIA O’KOYE
Dear children,
Please don’t rush to grow up.
Enjoy every single moment of your peace
Free from troubles,
Like the saplings that have patience to outgrow
The forest beds into the canopy
When it is their time.
Sweet babies
Value every second of playing,
Ignore negative remarks.
Attempting to quicken the pace of growing
Up, into a world that
Doesn’t want innocence to be the focus.
Lessons will learn in time,
In its own pace,
Milestones will be reach just at the nick of
Time.
No need to compare how fast or slow,
All shall be accomplished in fate.
Please enjoy your youth
Little ones.
Life will not halt or rewind,
Expanding like the stars we cannot see
With naked eyes.
Memories are like snowflakes
Unique to individuals,
Sometimes aging will make them melt
Before you can relish their designs.
Little ones
Don’t rush to grow up.
Enjoy the carefree world
Before reality strikes.
Youthful laughters are the medicine
During harsher times.
