Soft skin

Your skin is soft and flexible,

your face and body talk without words

every moment a new adventure

every feeling a new experience

Oh sweet child you feel so fully!

In your world there is always enough time and a spring ever-flowing with questions;

Your eyes see only with love.

Your restlessness due to not enough expansion.

How you strive for the impossible,

find  extra in the ordinary...

All fears all inadequacies are overcome and followed with squeals of laughter or celebrated with a gentle sigh and a hug.

I am old and hardened from self betrayal

Mundane autonomy 

no feelings shown unless it's something extraordinary. Yet I have lost sight of what this means.

Immobilised from the risk of loss

silenced

I long to find the child within.

Reviews

[Allen Smuckler]

Don't we all..."long to find the child within"... and our children allow that to happen...
The blank slate we all begin with... if only the adults didn't take that away
I can actually see you over a crib saying those words to your own and how you gently fast forwarded to our glorious youth...and cascaded to the depths of despair (adulthood)...
Life...as does this write...happens oh so quickly with so little time to catch our breath. I loved this on every level...
great write Jessi
I remain a child at heart....and always will
allen

[Richard Layne]

Poems about children always touch me. Very well done. I too am looking for my child within

[khalid]

very nice and slightly soft poem, i liked it so much

[Jay Levon]

another beautiful write, excellent

[Jessi Leigh]

Thank you so much for all your beautiful reviews, I have only seen them for the first time now. Interesting that we long to be children again, but who's to stop us from having moments where we let our inner child free?

Only you can do this. Touching me as deeply as your words dance. It is beautifully written, and the knowledge and experience we talked about lately I see through your interesting write. Again sister, deep Namaste.

[ColorblindMartian.]

The last line, left me thinking of a desperate reach for innocence. Something we only find in childhood. Very interesting and cool flow.

[Raven Starhawk]

You have unique wordplay here and it definitely intrigues the mind.

[Demi Rose]

well done. the last line really sets the poem in my opinion

[MAC]

how beautifully done. this is exactly what my daughter does for and to me. she softens my heart and puts some faith back into my soul. truly an amazing write that i just adore.