I walk in the morning
Please walk ahead of me
You’ll come across a stream
Drowning in hues
Of yellow like the sun
Reflecting all my ambitions
Floating on the surface

Please don’t run
after paper airplanes
Aimlessly in the air
They will crash to the ground
into puddles of rain and snow
Dissolve like your dreams
And you’ll fade

Morning and afternoons
Standing here beside you
Rivers and ponds nearby
Wanted to swim in them
All of the time

Mother was calling out your name
But you just walked away
Into the forest down the path
Wanted to find something grand

And all these aspirations will drown
You hold on tightly to your delusions
Ignorance is truly a blessing
But as we age the hues become duller

And all the time and all the days
Memories still fade into a fog
And I wanted to grasp them
Instead, I ended up crushing them

But a war in your heart is raging
Youth or Wisdom fighting
Conflicted ideas running rampage

And you have yet to decide
Which path to take
Airplane or your mother
Adventure or simple comfort

Will you follow everyone
Knowing you’ll be normal?
Or will you go off
In an adventure?

Do you want to be alone all the time?
No mother or father at home
Would you waste away in the past
Not knowing the truth?
Or would you just end up dull
Knowing that nothing lasts?



© Sofia Villagrana 2018