kids can feel it 

are real with it 

the future’s 

in their eyes 

 

so we’re careful 

with the lies 

chains of causation

waves of confusion we ride

 

causing all this 

dissonance 

we help them 

with the lifting  

 

their hope 

is our own 

we pass it on 

so it grows 

 

their determination 

the oxygen 

that makes 

the glow