It's impossible
They say
Which means I have to try
With you
Here
Next to me
We can accomplish
Anything
Catching fireflies
Now seems
So
Boring
We're not children anymore
We don't play tag
We don't battle dragons
We don't catch fireflies
Now
We try not to get our toes tagged
Sooner then their supposed to be
Now
We battle the cruel world
And the people within it
Now
We don't shove fireflies into tiny glass jars
We replace them with emotions
That light
That once came from those tiny creatures
Now comes from candelas
And not the scented kind
We stopped trying
To do what they said was impossible
Because now we realize
How hard it was to try
We wanted a kingdom
Lit only by fireflies
Who live in jars
But now capturing our energy source
Just seems stupid
We stopped catching fireflies
Now we catch stars
Now we have a kingdom
Now we let the fireflies go
But you kept one
As did I
And they live forever
And in 50 years time
We'll let them go
Into the sky
And I'll know where to find you
And we'll meet again
Underneath
Our kingdom of stars
And we'll stay there till the end
Sometimes
We miss those tiny creatures
And the light they provided us
When we were children
So
We let them into our kingdom
But we don't catch them
We don't make them our prisoners
Now
We catch stars
And sometimes
A firefly
Will land on the lid of our old jar
The one we keep
From all those years
On the bedside table
And we watch it
But we prefer stars now
Goodbye
To chasing fireflies
They're meant to be free

-StefC