The Eyes of HOPE

By: Michelle Buck - Kamehameha Schools

A Reflection: Teachers Across Borders

South Africa 2011

It is difficult to find words to express the sensations that rush through your body when you look into the eyes of a child.

It is difficult to find words to express the instinctive mothering that swells through your emotions when you wrap the child in your arms and hold him close.

It is difficult to find words to express the craving, the desire, the absolute need that overwhelms your soul to touch the life of just ONE.

It is difficult to find words. I shall try…

In the face of hunger

In the face of fear

In the face of death

How do they cope?

My life has forever

Been changed by the children

As I looked into

The eyes of HOPE!