The Moments of My Childhood

My childhood was moments of open opportunity When we showed our spirit so uninhibited An age that assured our souls truly existed Childhood was when I would feel and express All that I now hide and captures me frightened Moments when I expressed love generously Unashamed of whom I was or what I might become A place where others cared about my comportment When there was truth before promises were cast A time when you held me to you in love unrelenting Here was the time of emotions untamed discovery Building in power as they fracture and burst forth Washing in consequence all those who surrounded me It was exhilaration in the venture of each dawning day Or the peace of silence shared on a campfire beach In my youth I burned with an all-encompassing passion Consuming me whole and rending me unscarred fear My childhood was all that I allowed it to become When my heart was untainted and evil existed elsewhere When I was seeing only what I chose to see It was eternal Now that it has faded to bits of memory held fondly Once childhood has passed it is departed I can only capture its essence momentarily Then it fades as my fingers try to touch it