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what is protection?

July 13th, 2013 § 0 comments

Poem #181 for Kym Pappas

 

As much as we try
we, as children, get hurt;
we begin by living in a world of purity
make believe is our reality
and it is all as serious as it ever will be
in those young moments;
we are not deficient because of our age
we are tender and wise

whether we are loved by our parents
or ignored
or just simply lied to for our protection
there always occurs something that peels off
that first layer of blind hope
shrouding all of our beliefs
of what the world seems like
and exposes
the corrosion of what the world really is

When we lose naivity for the first time
what we also lose is the memory of
what our minds were like
what our beliefs were like
what the world was like
as a child

As a parent, there is a line:

Forget the actual maturity of your child,
ignore the precious delicateness of their impressionability
and you take the magical late-night dreams from them too soon

Protect them for long into their childhood
too long
and they quickly begin understanding the truth
for themselves, their way
and it errodes through your intentional, well-intentioned lies

Let them raise themselves
with guidance
to open new dreams, new lives
possibilities we never had the chance know

It will never be a perfect life
so
how long should a child believe disneyworld is real
before the truth is learned
and that child becomes the perfect individual
who was meant to be?

af

(written on computer, reading omens)

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