The Guardians Of The Small. 


   We teach a child to leap and run,
to gaze upon the skies.
   We teach the workings of the sun
like guardians old and wise.

    The child aspires to power and grace,
to chance and liberty;
   to earn by right the elder's place,
unscarred by poverty.

   The child, more often than the wise,
would dare to face the All.
   It is us who hide what we despise;
the guardians of the small.