What Do Children Know Of Love Poem by Jim Yerman

What do our children know of love?
It's a mesmerizing thought.
For everything they know of love…
is what they have been taught.

It is the same with honesty and kindness,
compassion and charity…
The same with tenderness and forgiving
the same with humanity…

Parents, we have a great responsibility…
but consider this a plus…
for what they know of love
is what they learn from us.

That our children learn of love from watching us
is profound to contemplate…
as long as we remember…
it also works with hate.