by Russell Willis

They are children
These saints of God
Children who wept like a child
Because they were a child
Who sang like a child
Because they were a child
Who danced through life like a child
Because they were a child
Who wiped our tears when we were children
And sang their songs and told their stories
And danced their lives to show us how to live
As a child 
As a child of God
These children of God
These saints

Ethicist, pastor, online education entrepreneur, and poet, Russell Willis, has been published in more than twenty-five online and print journals and fourteen anthologies. His Christian work has appeared in Agape Review, As Above So Below, and Ekstasis (forthcoming), and Faith and Christmas (both anthologies published by THE POET Magazine). You can access his poetry at REWillisWrites.com