Innocence

Innocence 

We thought right was unblemished

Confident in the constancy of wrong 

The fragility of man escaped our notice

Young feet walked straight lines 

Wide and clear with room for all

Exception improbable doubt impossible  

Humanity’s boundaries sharp 

Labor begets success

Purity begets love 

Sin begets regret

Nobility begets equality 

Until we saw them cry

With bowed head and bloodied knees

Until we found regret in purity 

With pain that made lines bend

Until we heard the wails arrive

With calloused knights failing still 

Until we ourselves pushed the walls 

With the furious strength of innocence 

And found they did not move

Except to throw upon our hearts 

A stab of understanding

In the new agony of knowledge