OCs

Give them a different chance
Where love and war do a different dance
Where death can wait
Where joy can grow
Where peace is strong
And anger slow

Give them a time to smile
To doubt, to laugh, to rest a while
To lose, and cry,
And fail, and fall,
But rise, and try
To save it all

Give them your own dear dream
Where hopeful futures brightly gleam
Where grief and fear
And harm and pain
Are minor strands
Within the skein

Give them your heart's desire
Your deepest wish, your secret fire
Weave them well
With words of art
Then give them to us
To hold in our hearts