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
Copyright © Shirley Hawkins | Year Posted 2020
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