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The Tholing Child
Donald P. Goodman III

A child will pout, nose red and eyes all wet,
demand to now why mother e'er would let
such cruel things happen to a child so good.

If she could stop them, surely then she would?
If she could them prevent, surely she should?
She either can't or won't; and so he cries.

Though mother to her apron-strings him ties,
and says it's for his good, he yells, "She lies!"
and nothing can a troubl'd child console.

But mother knows how much her child can thole;
a child should trust the one who sees the whole,
not judge, because he can't see all things yet.