Writer and painter Mia Vogel wrote this poem especially for our Umoja friends.
Children of the sun.
You can wait until life is …. in a memory before you decide
to be happy.Open your eyes look around you,
let the beauty of the world come in.Open your ears and listen with your heart and let music be the rhythm
on which you move forward.Let the most delicious scents of the flowers that you pick with your own
hands fill you with love for yourself and many others.Speak and sing with your mouth the most beautiful words and the sweetest
melodies make yourself happy.Leave your traces with your feet on the road that you may go
Jump over bumps that you would never dare to take.Embrace life as it is given with your most beautiful smile and your
brightest tear.
Every child in this world has the right to a loving existence.But you decide the path of your life give it color when it gets too dark
Give it light so that you can shine like a bright sun.You are allowed to be there you are allowed to learn you are allowed to live you are allowed to feel and be proud of yourself.
– Mia Vogel ❤️
Artwork by: Mia Vogel
