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To All the Grown Up Children
Contributed by
softerware
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Monday, 21st December 2015 @ 03:19:20 AM in AEST
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The magic of childhood is in their denying;
(Youth doesn’t know that it is defying;
Knots that will take a lifetime untying).
Given the gift of an unwritten slate;
To write what they wish, before it’s too late.
They all speak their minds, unfettered and free;
Cloaked in convictions of how things should be.
Beneath their bravado a child lies uncertain;
Powerless, hiding behind ego’s curtain!
Youth owes to no one! And no one owes you!
No debts (and no leverage to make dreams come true).
Only when laden with trade-offs and barters;
Can we negotiate uncharted waters!
Absent of scars from the marks of life’s battles;
Beauty is all youth can offer as chattel.
Those who suspect that youth/'/s gifts may fade;
Are wont to choose camps before the charade;
Of eternal perfection begins to degrade.
If given a choice, would you rather stay;
Here with your wisdom in tattle tale grey?
Or take back your youth and lose all you know;
Hoping to reap so much more than you sow?
Your answer depends on your joy or your sorrow;
It changes today, and again on the morrow.
It/'/s part what you have; and part what you/'/re wanting.
Half golden future; Half dusty hauntings!
Lest we sit teetering here on the brink;
Perhaps life is wiser than most of us think;
For penning us all in indelible ink!
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softerware
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Re: To All the Grown Up Children
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by Invierno on
Monday, 21st December 2015 @ 08:41:35 AM AEST
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A very insightful look at a topic I/'/ve spent much thought on. So well done, friend.
To borrow from a fellow of keenest wit, (a real Wilde child) "Youth is wasted on the young".
Glad to be back on here.
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Re: To All the Grown Up Children
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by ming on
Monday, 21st December 2015 @ 11:39:04 AM AEST
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Great read. This brought to me many thoughts. Which in my mind, deems it excellent! Dye the grey write whatever! I/'/m old and follow nothing. :) 2nd childhood? Maybe...
ming |
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Re: To All the Grown Up Children
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by xHeathenx on
Monday, 21st December 2015 @ 03:40:47 PM AEST
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Ah youth. The time in which I had been less contemplative, and less than informed or intelligent, yet much more free-spirited and impulsive. I think going back, with the lessons and information I/'/ve learned, and starting fresh would be fantastic, but unfortunately we can/'/t do such a thing. I envy you, oh immortal jellyfish.
(It can actually reverse aging at will!)
-Mark
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Re: To All the Grown Up Children
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by Beyfoxman5 on
Tuesday, 22nd December 2015 @ 08:18:30 AM AEST
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May we all have this perspective. Well penned.
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Re: To All the Grown Up Children
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by JamesStockdale on
Tuesday, 22nd December 2015 @ 02:28:47 PM AEST
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So well thought out and written.
I expected nothing less of course. I really liked this as it captured my attention and echoed my own thoughts. Again you/'/re amazing.
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Re: To All the Grown Up Children
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by Former_Member on
Tuesday, 22nd December 2015 @ 03:19:21 PM AEST
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// In answer to your author/'/s note: No. For every wish granted there is a trade off, that may change things and makes it worse. Even with the pain it sometimes causes, it makes me what I am.
That very last stanza is a very very wise metaphor!!!
Thankies.
Tim // |
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Re: To All the Grown Up Children
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by unknown_utopia on
Thursday, 24th December 2015 @ 01:06:11 AM AEST
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| Great topic great poem |
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