WGHA 2018 CHILDREN’S DAY POEM by Ayo Ayoola-Amale

LET IT BE EVERY CHILD

We build tomorrow on fire.

We build the ancestor to humanity,

they yelled our names, the mind,

in the heart of the deepening moonlight wind

with a steady hand we take hold of paradise.

We walk with society’s souls like maddened fresh air

in blazing nobility echoing centuries.

We build tomorrow in the world we found

for every child.

-ayo ayoola-amale © 2016