Children's Rhyme

 

Children’s Rhyme

Rhymes I learnt as a child

Filled my tiny head with imaginations new found

I created newer worlds with each one of them

Roamed into them with the players and made one of them

The fairy worlds were all so beautiful

Each one so remarkable

With the little I knew of then

Now I sit hours alone staring at the twinkling little stars

But don’t wonder as I know now what they are

So I try hard to erase the facts learnt and just wonder what they are

But then I quickly get lost in thought of some constellation of adult troubles

The world around isn’t as cosy

As felt the ring around the rosy

And I find nothing so thrilling

Was it the magic of the poetry

or was it the curiouity of the unknown

that used to make them so intriguing?

Or is it simply

that my mind has become so dead

that the little pleasures dont

enchant me anymore?

I do not want to grow up

I still want to hold my dad’s little finger and run into my mother’s outstretched arms

To forget the yawing abyss that stretches in between

Threatening to engulf me into a mire of worries for the future and regrets of the past

Please don’t make me grow up..

Reviews

[Dayran]

A glimpse into the subtle experiences of life, that begins us on the great journey of discovery, hoping as it does to fill the universe of experience. I dare say that it has a greater ambition that you may assign to its intentions. Nice write!