Let it be so that it will be truly so. And what Bob Dylan recently sang to me from the last century, "And may you live, forever young…"

Ron

This is a lovely, well-written expression of wishful, prayerful, hope. I even like that you have text only and no ‘image’ with this, because image can change context of a piece of writing. Keeping this universal to grandparent and parent and about children of every kind, size, color, nature of ‘child’ enhances the power of the poem. I, like you, wish that the ‘spirit’ of my twin five-year-old granddaughters, well-nurtured by good parents, can continue on into their lives. That is a still-hopeful dream of an elder for their innocence, generosity, and their love of life itself, to to somehow radiate forward. We oldsters wish and dream, too. Thank you for your uplifting poetry, Birendra. ~~ djl