YOUNG

Greetings young visitor

From distant times

and different climes

How strangely you appear

With your direct proud gaze

and demeaner of confident ease

How odd we must seem

Alas you should not alight

You are not guaranteed here

Your very manner marks you a target

You see as yet we cannot guard

safe our own precious youth

Their innocence is too soon

harshly ripped asunder lost

Stay you there at rest

peaceful encased in that moment

Pray we that someday soon

we may gather multiple such

moments that our young

can build their lives with