Death:
Teaching a Young Child
Buy me a goldfish so it will eventually die,
So I can understand why people cry.
Teaching me about this natural process,
Indubitably makes you feel uncomfortable, no less.
Your beliefs about death must be known to you,
If you are of any faith or none teach it to me too,
Before my first crisis with death give me your teaching,
Fill the didactics with a lot of fun and a little preaching.
Lester J. Hartman, MD