Sunday, 26 April 2026

childhood ~ well i asked me

 childhood ~ well i asked me


you name it

i killed it

my childhood

for the life of me

never again


so many things 

we discovered and

filed away along the lines 

of life’s magnetism

polarised


a remembrance 

of wings on heels

grounded in the bog

between the ponds

of life’s spawn


gangs of kids

what was the attraction

that so propelled us

down our differing roads

on life’s journey 

to the destinations of the past


the playground 

fences vaulted 

the containment of advice

spun off the roundabout and

the emotional swings we rode 


the length of evening shadows

from alpha to omega

as unknown then as now

not one carefully placed foot

could pin time’s long demise


dressed in those shadows

the emperor’s new clothes are

but a shroud around the sunshine

that closes these old eyes

in the weight of expectations

unrequited

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