What is better than the spark of a child's mind,

When excited by a new idea or challenge?

Who is more caring than a parent, 

Seeing the victories that their child had won and

The battles that were lost

To produce the creation they so proudly present.

Do not, I warn, allow your spark to fade in the night, dear child,

For not everyone understands your

Mind as I do.

Many will be jealous and vain,

While others completely discount the idea of you

Producing something with the beauty that your

Project has shown.

The spark of light dancing behind

Dark

Intelligent

Young

Eyes

.

I beg you do not forget that others will be entranced by this 

Light within you.

Even when others still can not understand the

Reasons you gave for

Your creation.

Even when you feel that your

Flame is being

Smothered

Do not let it go out.

For to grow a flame is so much easier than it is to

Ignite another in the 

Ashes of a young flame

Put out too soon by

School

Work 

Grief

That weigh in too heavy for an adult to carry

Let alone the shoulders of a child who

So often carries them 

Farther and feels the wounds

Deeper and hauls the weight

Longer.

Be careful with who you share your spark with

Young one

Because if you are to trust it with the wrong person

And they stomp it out before it

Could grow healthy and hearty

And is still so easy to ruin

Then trust that it will be.

Put up barbed wire and flood

Lights around your spark. Keep it deep within a 

Bunker that

Keeps it safe from the evil intentions of the 

World.

For if ignorance is bliss

What horrors must you live?

But if someone can be trusted with

Everything else in your life, and has torn down the 

Thorns and 

Lights with a 

Gentleness that those who crushed your 

Flame did not possess

And bloodied their hands in the process because

Your spark is important to them

More so than their own flesh

Then unlock your doors because you can

Have your flame be stomped on but if you

Deprive 

It of oxygen for too 

Long then it will be lost to 

The world anyways

.