In Some Twisted Ways

“Growing older is mandatory but growing up is optional.”

Adulthood is tough. But it’s tougher whenyou start paying your own bills. Sometimes I wish I could remain as a child, innocent, pure and carefree. I wish I could play all day, chasing butterflies and dragonflies, catching tadpoles on streams, play hide and seek with my cousins or jump around in the play ground. I wish. But at some point, even if growing up is optional, I chose to grow up. Then the confrontation of bigger responsibilities overwhelmed me. At times it gets exhausting. Simple matters become complicated and I became accustomed with the ‘real’ ferris wheel they call “LIFE”.  There are times that I feel like quitting, but then I realized that everything will have its own ending.

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Peter Pan’s Never-never Land

© dcec 23.04.2008

V2 27May09

 

Take me, Peter Pan

To the hidden ‘Nowhere’ Land.

Fly me,

To where the magic shines.

 

Spare me a pinch,

Of Tinkerbelle’s fairy dust,

To be able to feel the cold air’s kiss,

Against my cheek.

 

I want to touch the sky,

Feel the clouds with my palm,

Look the world at bird’s eye view,

And see the stars up close.

 

I’ll help you fight Captain Hook.

I’ll be friends with everyone.

Just as long as you take me with you,

To the place called Never-never Land.

 

Hold my hand now,

And together we’ll fly away,

To the place you call home,

Beyond the skies.

 

To make me forget,

Even for a moment,

The pins and needles,

Pricking my heart.