I Wish To Be a Child Again

I wish to be a child again if only for a day Happiness, joy and fun endless hours spent in play Time to imagine all sorts of impossible things Dinosaurs skipping and Hippopotami with wings Parties, swing parks, carousels and fairs Fairies, gnomes and goblins, leprechauns and big hairy bears A child can be anything it wants to be Nothing is impossible with a child's innocent imaginary One day a pirate, Long John Silver no less Complete with a black eye patch and a cutlass to impress A child would wave the cutlass around pretending to be strong Giving orders to the crew, because he was Long John Children don't need to be amused they don't have that need Their vivid imagination is more than adequate to feed Their enquiring minds without any shades of grey Everything is black and white to them It's a shame that cannot stay