Poem-A-Day April 13: that wilder bond

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Wilder Bond Poem

May we raise children
who love the unloved
things — the dandelion, worms
& spiderlings.
Children who sense
the rose needs the thorn

& run into rainswept days
the same way they
turn towards the sun.

And when they’re grown & someone
has to speak for those who
have no voice

may they draw upon that
wilder bond, those days of
tending tender things

and be the ones.

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