In my hour of childhood
I was simple-hearted and free.
The notion of existence
Intricately confounded me.
The true nature of my essence
Was not of my discerning.
To be—right here and now
I did not find such concerning,
If existence is a concept
Then I am the spawn of chaos.
Truly, those of lack of truth
Cannot bear what is definitively best
Existence is brief, and life is a flower
Prepossessing and free, but gone in an hour.
This was my cognition set
In a world consumed with children's life bets
There is nothing in my trials,
Nought in my sentimental thought
Nothing in my possession, not at all within pure dreams
That has the strength to restore my blessed, beloved simplicity...