The Children

Straight backed obedience
Driven to comply
Acts duly committed
Without the question 'why?'

Love for the adult
With unmutual respect
A diminishing soul
Too imbedded to detect

Quashed curiosity
For adult peace of mind
An inquisition missed
Too hard to rewind

Mouths shut, legs crossed
With eyes on the prize
A minute validation
For developmental deprivation

Can't you adults see
Children need to be seen?
They mirror your acts
And reflect your esteem

Can't you adults hear
Children need to be heard?
Their simplicity of truth
Redefine the absurd

You act for the immediate
Only for your convenience
You shut the kids down
Then blame them for deviance

Why for your sake
You keep kids in your wake
But ignore their joyous presence
When they're opportunities to take

Don't you remember
That you were once them?
Reaching out for the hand
Of your adult guardian

Don't you remember
How you wanted to play?
But told to sit down!
Listen! and Obey!

Nurture the child
That you wanted to be
To build a new adult
For our future community

We don't want the anger
That perpetuates the war
Between youth and adult
When we're all from one world

Understand today
To realise tomorrow
There's more to education;
There's no bow and arrow

In the words of Abe Lincoln
We must 'disenthrall'
Our industrial ideal
It's detrimental to all

Embrace a new culture
To flourish and thrive
Cultivate individuality
Aid kids to come alive!

We need a revolution
As our soulful solution
To bring the human race
To a new evolution!