Innocent Love

How strong is that love of an innocent

It breaks all bounds, it knows no barriers

No language cannot translate it,

No shadow can hide it

Every soul, every heart

Bitter, tough, experienced, wry

Will laugh and it will cry

At the expression of innocent love

Simple and pure, innocent and naïve

The love of one who has not been hurt,

Who has not been lost by life

Nor loved and not loved in return

Be it a child, or a youthful mind

Fresh on its path into the world at large

The love of this child, the hope of this mind

Know no limits and speak no lies

Yet to witness the first act of betrayal

To this love, to this spirit

Wrenches the heart of young and old

Of the cynical and the vain

For every watching eye

feels the pang anew

and thinks “oh how that moment hurt,

when the reality of life I knew”