Henderson Park

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On today of all days, I want to go back
I want to be a kid again
With no awareness of the world
The fleeting nature of time
The matters of the heart that concern adults

I was to be a kid again
Running around Henderson Park
With my imagination telling me a small opening in a tree made it a little house for me to live in

Where everything is magical and never ends
A life where I come home and play with my toys until the day is done
With no knowledge of the internet or a phone

Where I watch movies for the hundredth time
Or re runs of Thomas and Rugrats until my mother tells me it's time for bed

A sliver of let me do it all over again
A glimmer of help me forget
A sheen of undo all the pain, the hurt, the sadness

Take me back to a time when it wasn't a flicker in my eye
It wasn't real
None of it was
And I could do it all differently

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