Innocence

Kiss your children tonight

For tomorrow by this time

A little more of the innocence 

In this world would have been lost

It has been in the throes of death

For a good while now

But lately the cries of agony

Have been piercing through the night

Even as death set its claws

The first piece chipped away

It flailed and wailed for help

But too busy we were to listen

You were not the one who killed it

Certainly, neither was I 

But in good faith can we say

That we never cast a stone?

Through that kiss you may hope

Generations and generations forth 

They may not remember us 

As the ones who let darkness prevail

Through that kiss to your children

Transmit a little love, an apology 

Say, we couldn't stop its fall 

But in it and in you as well

We shall believe forever