The Moments of My Childhood
My childhood was moments of open opportunity
When we showed our spirit so uninhibited
An age that assured our souls truly existed
Childhood was when I would feel and express
All that I now hide and captures me frightened
Moments when I expressed love generously
Unashamed of whom I was or what I might become
A place where others cared about my comportment
When there was truth before promises were cast
A time when you held me to you in love unrelenting
Here was the time of emotions untamed discovery
Building in power as they fracture and burst forth
Washing in consequence all those who surrounded me
It was exhilaration in the venture of each dawning day
Or the peace of silence shared on a campfire beach
In my youth I burned with an all-encompassing passion
Consuming me whole and rending me unscarred fear
My childhood was all that I allowed it to become
When my heart was untainted and evil existed elsewhere
When I was seeing only what I chose to see
It was eternal
Now that it has faded to bits of memory held fondly
Once childhood has passed it is departed
I can only capture its essence momentarily
Then it fades as my fingers try to touch it
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