and perhaps, one day
you might have liked to grow
and share your Neverland
with someone you’d come to know
but was life ever fair
to boys who were lost
granted, you discovered yourself
but at what cost?
they said to never say goodbye
and to never go away
but they forgot to warn you
sometimes life won’t let you stay
and you’ll never be forgotten
because we all believe
with a bit of fairy dust
in our Neverland, you’ll forever live.
Remembering Michael Llewelyn Davies, one of the boys who inspired J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan. This poem is dedicated to him and to Jonathan Ferrara, an author whose upcoming book inspired me to write this poem.