As a little girl I believed in lands hidden from view,
Fantastical places where adventures would ensue,
They were in the clouds or kept in closed cupboards.
I believed in Santa and The Easter Bunny too.
I believed in valiant knights who swung mighty swords.
There were pretty princesses, perils and dangerous dragons,
Even a talking mirror and a glittering glass shoe.
All this I believed to be true.
As I grew a little older, I expected that, all too soon,
Cars would zoom over my head , high in the sky.
Mankind would exist, live and love upon the moon.
I did worry- a little- that in a nuculear war we might all die,
I feared my Earth would be little more than a smoking ruin.
And then away to another planet would we humans have to fly.
All this I believed to be true
As a woman I saw a beautiful princess,
In a Mercedes,
Broken, Torn and Crushed.
I saw two proud tall towers,
Hit by planes and tumble,
Howling, Fuming and Smoking.
I saw Nasa become a hollow lifeless shell,
As it launched empty satelites, Man's dreams,
Sold, Abandoned and Wasted.
I watched as cars suffocated ,
crowded cites with long snaking,
Consuming, Traffic Chains.
All this I saw to be true.
Now I am all grown,
Tall, strong and a little sad.
I am no longer chocking in anger,
That my time is not sweet and sunny.
I realise I live in the wasteland of greed,
The evil of apathy, selfishness and money,
Tyrannically ruled by the wickedly weak ,
The boldly bad and /or dangerously mad.
My growing up is complete because I now truly believe,
This world is flawed and so to am I,
BUT
There is also the undefeatable undaunted reality,
of our HUMANITY!
And this I boldly swear to be true.
