Based on experiences from my childhood I hope my child will also have
What if I was a child forever?
Would everything be the same as I remember?
Would everyone be the way they are right now?
Oh, I some times wonder this myself
I would go the forest
Trees would be so enormous to my tiny eyes
I would spend all day climbing them
See for miles, feel the large wood limbs
I would get stuck in the trees up high
Calling for my uncle to get me down
But if he has changed, he would be busy at that time
And I would be stuck in that tree forever
I would go to the beach
The sand soft between my tiny toes
I would skip down the shoreline in the morning
Jump into the waves in the afternoon
I would get cold in the evening
Wanting my mom to wrap me in a towel
But if she has changed, she would also be busy
And I would freeze all night
I would go to the grasslands
The horses running faster than my little legs
I would try my best to run alongside them
To match their speed and determination
I would get very, very tired
Wanting my dad to drive me home
But, of course, he was always so busy
So why is it I think these thoughts?
Or are these thoughts even about myself?
For as much as I long to be a child
I longer to be the mother of a child
To recuse them from the tallest tree
To wrap them in the warmest, softest towel
To drive their sleepy spirit home to rest
I am a not a child forever
A child will show me that