I am a Child Not a Man

I am a child

Not a man

I am a child

Coddled within delusions

Liberty, Freedom, Individuality

Living outside reality

Starvation, Opression, Segragation

Unable to fathom strife

And no book can educate that

I am a child

Not a man

I stumble and fall

Stumble and fall

Over and over

Unyielding; never looking back

Never looking down

to see that pebble

I am lost in innosense

Romanticism, euphoria, Passion for life

Wandering aimlessly for stability

Searching for truth

Hi and Low

In circles of emptiness

I am a child

Not a man

Falling through Love

Like a bullet shattering a pane glass window

Echoing over the priest's sermon

Racing through Life

Fleating moments never known

Sinking into my afterthoughts

With blinders I dance

In a clausterphobic pandemonium

Alone

I am a child

Not a man

Born in a haze

of clarvoyance

I see tomorrow

Though lose it by morning

Ever smiling through life

Refusing to show emotion

Scared of life with them

I am a child

Not a man

Saying Hello with no thought

Holding on to Good-byes

But there are far to many of both yet to come

I am a child

Not a man

New responsibilities arise

From the ashes of old freedoms

Now I am niether

A child Nor a man.........