Children playing

Children playing in a river –
all they don’t yet know;
all they’ll someday never know
with the same
undiluted joy and clarity.

   ***

The game of what to reveal
and what to conceal
is played over a lifetime –
the child learns quickly.

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The child plays
behind fences and walls;                                            
the game she plays
has neither fences nor walls.

 - Eduard Burle