• Remember when we were children
    In that temperate age of spring?
    Playing in those grassy fields
    Without a care in sight?

    The air so clear and warm and bright
    A blanket around my suntanned skin.
    The clouds were animals that we would pat
    As they joyfully danced across the blue stage.

    Drowning in the ecstasy of
    The picturesque rays of sun.
    We'd dance and play until we fell
    Upon a feathered matress of green.

    We weren't expected much
    School was a few seconds' day.
    Our clothes were ripped, my hair, a mess.
    Toothless smiles littered the field, but
    It was just you and me.

    I held your hand and you held mine.
    And you swore that you'd marry me.
    I followed you everywhere, and you didn't mind.
    You waltzed with me to music we sang.

    Our games of make-believe
    Would last for seconds to days.
    I was the princess and you were the prince
    With my flowing dress and your Epee.

    Day by day, you grew inches
    Your boyish features; turned to angles
    Your untamed hair was cut and combed.
    Little did I know...
    I was growing too.

    Did you really trade that sword
    For a colorless suit and tie?
    You call my dreams foolish.
    Weren't those your dreams, too?

    We haven't danced in decades it seems
    That what you once were is lost.
    You're not smiling anymore.
    Where did all the happy go?

    I look into your eyes and
    All I see is fear of tomorrow.
    Your silver is now gray and
    Hazel dimmed to black.

    Oh, how I'd love to see the earth
    Through the eyes of a fledgling child
    With not a trouble in the world
    Reality is what we made it.

    Good was good, bad wasn't there.
    We had no real enemies.
    We befriended the theives
    We rode the dragons.

    I stole the warm from your hands
    While dancing to the music we made.
    My love, how I'd love to see the earth
    Once more...
    Through the eyes of a fledgling child.