L. J. Carber Poet Free verse

It's Funny Being a Kid

It's funny being a kid--
for one thing, 
you can never see eye-to-eye
with the grown-ups, 
and not just cause they're taller-- 
no, it's how they think,
in that strange way, 
what with all their secrets
and sneaky looks at one another....

But kids are honest, kids are real.
They all live only in the present, 
the here and now, but still are 
magically, wondrously unconstrained 
by place or time or size: 
so they can be pirates on the high seas 
one day, or brave cavalry charging 
savage foes the next, or
maybe happy cowboys and cowgirls 
home on the range under 
a vast and comforting blue sky.

Kids leave it to the adults 
to make a bomb that is real, 
to kill or maim, to wage wars 
that rubble cities and wreck nations....

Oh, if only kids could always live 
in that World of Imagination, 
and never become grown-ups!

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Constance La France October 17, 2015 at 4:38 PM Len, oh the innocence of a child, it is a wondrous thing, a lovely 7 and thanks for visiting my poem, can you hear me God and for the nice comment ~~

Andrea Dietrich October 16, 2015 at 8:19 PM loved your angel story. My hubbie says he has one like that too!! well, I really liked your poem. it's full of the simple truth about life. Kids grow up, sadly. what is even sadder is to see kids today acting like ruthless adults!