Medicine For Healing

I see you looking at your children,

Wondering what their lives will be.

If you verify some answers

Then their future you might see.

Have you taught them to be truthful?

Have you taught them to be kind?

Have you given them the wisdom

Needed to be color blind?

Have you taught them to be caring

For those differently abled people some way?

Do you read to them at bedtime?

Have you taught them how to pray?

Have you taken time to tell them

What a miracle life is?

How to be aware of nature,

Share the beauty that it gives?

Have you taught them how important

It is to have respect for one another?

To be grateful, not be prideful

When good fortune you discover?

Do you let them know you love them

In a way that leaves no doubt,

So they know that is one thing

That they will never be without?

We like to think we've done our best.

Sometimes that's very true.

Can you say 'yes' to all my questions?

I will leave that up to you.

I hope your answer is affirmative,

For then I know that you will see

A future filled with happiness

Like it's supposed to be.

©Marabi Amfaal Hydara

The Humanitarian Poet