🌿 Before we Understand

When we are children,
we dream without measure —
of who we will become,
and how we will live.

Children who grow up chasing dreams
do not yet know reality.
They do not know the world,
or the One who created it.
They do not know life,
nor its cruel indifference.
They do not know man,
nor the twisted paths of his thoughts.

They do not know right from wrong,
compassion from coldness,
goodness from regret.

And yet — we grow.
We begin to understand...
But by then,
we have already grown old.
The dreams — frozen,
and our youth — gone.

What a strange wonder life is.
It steals our time,
before we ever truly understand ourselves.