When you ask people what they miss most about their childhood there are many responses. The usual include; free time, no job, meals prepared for you, zero responsibilities etc…
Personally, I find myself ocasionally longing for a return to naiveté. Technically innocence really but I was hard on myself even before I knew I was doing so.:) The golden days before I realized that my own existence was a pristine haven while much of the rest of the Planet was a veritable dumpster fire of war, poverty, famine and all around anguish.
I still vividly recall multiple perceptions shattering through my childhood and adolescence. Learning that evil was not just in stories. Realizing adults don’t have it figured out any more than kids do and often in fact to a lesser degree. Seeing horrific tragedy occur to the best among us. That is very much the reality of our existence. Wasn’t it nice before you realized it though?
I titled this one, Disney, April 25, 2018.
Can you recall of times jejune
Small children staring at the moon
Unafraid of the trials of life
Ignorant to both war and strife
Softest thoughts of warm gentle dreams
Zero terror, fear, no shrill screams
No feedback of internal blight
Endlessly looping shrieks of fright
Unblemished, a mind at peace
One day exposed and it will cease
A vital toxin all contract
Innocence ineffably snapped.
There are of course many advantages to accepting reality. Once you see and realize the problem for instance you can actually make some attempt to help. There are innumerable benefits to adulthood and responsibility and I certainly wouldn’t go back- but every once in a while I do miss the Disney endings. Excluding, I suppose, the occasional bestiality…
I am truly blessed to have all of you wonderful people visiting. Please know how much I appreciate you!
Be extraordinary! Or at least not ordinary.:)
-Alex Blaikie
dreadpoetssobriety
A fractured mind held together by cellophane and some used tack.
in the rabbit hole, out of the rabbit hole, in, out, in out, until you see it whole, wabbitt, wabbitt – cool words dude 🙂
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You are too kind my friend. All the best!
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This piece is amazing…well written🙌🙌
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Thank so much!
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Hey Alex, firstly thanks for following my wordpress blog and cheers on the post, as well as the positivity for humanity in this post… optimism.
I think the negative or some stark realism is equally present, so I suppose I just like the post. Cheers all the same.
Clark
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Haha yes reconciling the two takes some practice. Cheers mate!
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Beauty in both and how great when we can appreciate one for the other… 🙂
You are the first follow for me on WordPress so definitely want to express the appreciation. Take care and much love.
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My pleasure!
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Really like this one. Something we can all relate to. So much truth to this. Thanks for the follow as well!
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my kid’s life was a longing to be a grown up and knowing deep down childhood was not all it was cracked up to be… well, mine wasn’t. I envy you yours, how beautifully you lived it and no wonder you miss it.
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I hope peace has found or finds you:)
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it’s coming.. i hope
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Was wondering how bestiality came into it. LOL.
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I’m living as a child now… free time, no job, meals prepared for me, zero responsibility etc. Even though I’m already an adult.
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Your poetry rhymes! And scans! I thought I was the last loon on Earth claiming poetry should do that not just be prose with indentations. Well done!
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It’s just so much more fun when you find the perfect rhyme!
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Really enjoying your stuff. Thank you for the follow.
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“Stuff” does not intend to diminish the quality of the work but in fact elevate it as in, “the right stuff” and “stuffed with goodness.”
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No offence taken here:)
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Ah, the magic of childhood… enjoyed this. Sadly, not all children have the luxury of ‘naïveté.’
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What a high calling we have to do our part to ease the burden and suffering of so many around us… thank you for your post Alex
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