my ignorant world

 

One day I’ll have a normal life

And wake up with not a worry in sight

I’ll get dressed, eat some breakfast

And go about in blissful ignorance

Of a world gone mad with pain.

A world in which loving parents

Have no children

Loving parents

Have children that suffer forever

Loving parents

Are endlessly tested in their faith

Loving parents

Wish for children that can walk, or talk,

Or radiate with health

Wish for children, period.

In my world of ignorance I notice nothing

My beautiful family gets up and goes to school

My house is comfortable, with place for everything

My parents take care of me, provide stability & help

I take this family to school with all the rest of the ignorant world, blissful peace

My worries will be over supper and homework, maybe a call from a teacher

Not doctors and medicine, children who feel pain but can’t tell anyone-not even to scratch an itch

Not a beautiful child lying underground forever, never to be kissed or seen again

Not medical personnel who hold your lives in their hands, apologizing over endless mistakes that make my life more difficult

None of that exists, in my ignorant world

And I go thru life none the wiser

I dance at weddings and hold grandchildren

I pray for all the other people with problems

And maybe volunteer to help them

And never would I have to bend down every day to

Pick up the pieces of my broken heart