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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