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Yes... I understand
Despite everything
I must still stand
Have you ever thought
Why people yearn
For their childhood
Have you wondered
Why they pondered
About the years
When they feared
The uncertainty of the dark
The absence of light
Or perhaps when their
Teeth fell out?


This and their only world
Was woven around
With a bold, maybe...
But a glass dome of naivety
That gaze through life
Was drawn from
A golden tray of novelty
And all must agree
How raw children may be
They were happy
When they laid their head
On their silk bed
What roared after
However
Was a calamity
That slept sinister
hiding under
the vanishing years

The dome shattered upon
The pain
And the rain!
of
Living more
Knowing more
Seeing more
Feeling more
Desiring more
Accepting more
But enough?
nevermore!
Hereupon, that is
The tragedy
The agony
The malady

The calamity

Of so long
so long life.
In my life,
I've been to places,
unbeknown to me;
often the last time,
then they filled with
new, (and?) foreign faces,
by the tactless
yet unforgiving time

Then all I had,
was the remembrance,
and the longing
for faint
- but somewhat-
aching memories
now floating below
the infinite horizon of time.
One may see a limerick, out of the blue
No hint of sorrow, whom the joy outgrew
  Sorry if this one is not so merry
  I might have made it grimy:
words, my tears fall onto
Days' work vanishing into
Hauntings of what could have been
The cold truth unfolding
Only then you begin realizing
A disappointment has set sail
unto the sea of your thoughts
I cannot sleep at all
I cannot see at all
Tomorrows where we all
Don't grow after all
And keep the tender
the naive, the colorful
the warm touch of our soul
I cannot sleep at all
I do not want to fall
Into the dreams
Of my very own
To feel as to be
A child yet again
untouched by the years'
cruel call
I do not want to sleep
After all
What I felt, looking at the bleak wall
Enclosing my pain, heartache and all
Was the wry and olden heap of sorrow
Being fed by the shapeless and odorless morrow
And the evergrowing storm within
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