Once we were children

Last night my mind slipped back to when I was a child, and I remembered some of things that marked growing up. The everyday things that we all go through, they pass us by oh so fast!!
I wrote this short poem to help me remember a little of what it was like.

Once we were children

We liked to have mum kiss it better

Why was the bed damp one morning

We always want to be a little bit bigger

Want to be that bit taller, that's all

To stop wearing shorts, having plats

Wearing long skirts, trousers and that

Being allowed to play out, until it was dark

Walking to school all on our own

Eating the things we we're never allowed to

We thought to be clever was everything

Wanted mum and dad to always care

Never thought what we did made them scared

Then we started to do more things on our own

Feeling more grown up every day

Going to the movies on our own

Seeing girls and boys in a different ways

Though we were still just children in lots of ways

Then our bodies they begin to feel sort of strange

And the child starts to fade, fade completely away

An adult child is now on its way

We never noticed when the whole thing started

Never knew when the child departed

Its gone away now, and now we know

We can't go back, we don't need to grow

Though sometimes we'd like to dream again

To be children again and have the childhood things

In some ways I think it would be good, good for a day

Then I remember how I wanted to be tall

And how I got here that's about all

I am past it now and its all right

I don't need a light at night

Stephen. W.T  Read (2010)