The Kid in Me Can See

When we were kids we made wishes
Now we call them dreams
When we were kids we said thank you
Now it is something we get back to
When we were kids there were long summer days
And now we don't get a chance to buy summer clothes before the season ends

When we were teenagers
We thought we could change the world
Now we just say that is the way it is
There is nothing we can do
When we were teenagers
We could easily see what is wrong
even if we didn't have a solution
When we were teenagers
We want to marry the first person we fall in love with
And then we learn what it means to actually marry
When we were teenagers
We fought for our rights
Simply because it may have meant we got to do something or not


When we finish college or start working
We say we are going to buy a car, a house, a dog
We are going to get a job, get married, settle down


Then we have a job, get married, have a child, buy a house
We grow a new respect that our parents actually have done these very things
And what it meant to them, how it got there before we came along, and that they are only people too


And then we stop growing, talking about how things use to be
Yet the current moments are just as important as the "old" times we speak of
A birthday passes and we don't want to speak our age
A birthday passes and we want it not to come
WE forget that we get to be each age for one year
No matter what age it is
Let it be and take on the years
Example 17, 24, 32, 45, 53, 65, 72, 86, 95
That gives us all hope that our age is an accomplishment
That our research and growths have given back to us longevity to share
To share our wisdom's and our resilience
A soul truly does not know how old it is without the evidence of it's own body
A soul is ageless as love is endless and life is eternal
As we can see the good parts we create them
Retrain your eyes, reroute your mind and follow your heart
Create you as you see
And you will teach what you are
And live within your truth!