When you were younger, did you draw
the sun in the corner of the page like me?
Did you also believe that the world was once in black and white just like tv?

Were the thoughts in your head
freely expressed... just like
the feelings you told them you had.
At least you had said.
Didn't you?
No.
They never asked.....so you lied "I'm okay,
I'm fine" instead.

A few years pass.
Was that when you realised that
all that stuff didn't matter?
Just like me, was that around the time your not so perfect bubble popped... and
your innocent child-like view
started to shatter?

© Melissa Taylor