Childhood: how you really went!

Flash Poetry

Sam Mwaka-karama

You are gone childhood, leaving me empty.

You really was my driver - my extra pound came from you. 

Childhood you made me happen, you gave me joy,

it was your childhood laughter that won me friends, it was your hope

that made me forget the wrongs and difficulties that poisoned my life.

Childhood, how you really went!

You took away fondness - how I now am lost without you!

Where O! Where

Where do I go childhood, without you - am vacated, am empty, am done.

I crave for just a little more of your innocence... if ever aging could allow

Look O! Look

Look now, am surrounded by all the dreams I had all my life... all the dreams you made me see, they float and speed-by. My dreams are in every Mall and Plaza!

My dreams are on the roads, the highways, on the streets everywhere

How do I breakaway - how do I hop onto the fast lane dreams you made me see

so long ago - just look how my dreams roll by and am here looking.

Just looking O look, childhood

the dreams don't recognize me anymore - sad, how just simply sad!

O childhood - how I wonder what happened to you...

Now I see it all - and it hurt me so!

You had protected me... O! childhood how your innocence took me places

And now you are gone - you are nomore and, how alone you left me!

My dreams are afloat on the wind

at every turn of the road

in the homes and villages - I now see it all so clearly

now that you went - childhood how you really went

O how you took away your childhood love from me *** 

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