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Child left behind

days roll faster and faster

things you knew and loved

have gone away or been replaced

pages written have gotten fewer and fewer

you acknowledge the change in the year’s number

but you're stuck at a point in the past

abandoned by the spoken words

mind free to run through the fields and far beyond

to bathe in the lake of your imagination

found yourself in a conflict with the form

for it is unmoving, stable and caught

but it taught you senses through which you feel

in search for a way in which you could be at ease

to grab the thing that keeps you from singing

and not to be a friend of shadows

there are so many stories in which you played a part

but left them before the end was written

in this world it only matters

how good you sell yourself

how good you please others

what kind of living is this?

when you feel most alive in your dreams

but the fear and expectations push you further

as the desire to return to the child

left behind gets bigger and bigger

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Written by
natasa-dolenc
Slovenian
Published
Aug 15, 2011
Lines·Words
25·187
Notes

This poem is included in the last chapter in my poetry/photography collection - Colours of the sea.

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