What do you do with a susceptive child?
A child as free as a wildflower wild—
Let him roam, exploring life on his own,
Or stake the greenhead until fully grown?
To be he must see
To see let him be.
What do you do with a perceptive child?
A child as free as a wildflower wild—
Should she suppress her thoughts and genuflect,
Bending like primrose to the canon’s text?
To see she must be
To be and let see.
What do you do with an assertive child?
A child as free as a wildflower wild—
Tell him the world should be laughed at aloud,
Or humble, like the mumm, his pang of proud?
To be he must see
To see let him be.
What do you do with a deceptive child?
A child as free as a wildflower wild—
Pierce with your sting or purge her with hyssop,
Tending apis, this deceitful maypop?
To see she must be
To be and let see.
jlewisceleste 