Our Will To Play

Do you remember when we were kids
And our imagination weren’t limited
Our whole lives were ahead of us
And there was no such thing as debt
Do you remember the summers
Before we got to old
And started caring only for finding gold

We were getting high
on life and on helium
We weren’t afraid of emotions
We’d feel ’em

We chaced our licorice 
With bubble gum
Thought we’d always be young

Tommie threw rocks at Jennie
Because he liked her
Eventhough girls were icky

The last thing we wanted
was to nap or go inside
We wanted others to seek
So we could hide

All we had to do was “go and play”
Until the street light told us
It was time to call it a day

Before we knew it
We we grew up 
And locked our childhoods away
Somewhere in the shuffle
We lost our will to play

Patricia Dorr 06/28/19