Coming Of Age Project-poem

LOST RIGHT WHEN FOUND

Childhood.

         Days would drag by

                              not a care in our hearts

            or a fear in our minds.

                        We would play under the sun

                                    and dream under the moonlight

of the fun that awaited us.

            We had scrapes on our knees

                        and tears in our eyes

                                    but we were un-destructible.

            Eventually though,

we saw the end of a setting sun

                        and the rise of a new one.

So many things

                        I wanted

                                    to be.

So many places

                        I wanted

                                    to see.

I tried

      to do everything

  but

                                     the time grew too short

               and eventually

                        the alarm clock rang

and it was time to leave one

stage

                        and enter another.

As I grew

             older

I wished to grow

                        down

to be all the things

                        that were lost

                                                            right when found.

  but

            of course life

                        kept on ticking away.

And as the days flew by,

            I spent too much time

                        wishing that

all things could stay just the same.

But nothing would go back

                        to the carefree days

                                                where

            there were things

                                                I wanted to be

            and places

                                                I wanted to see.