Lessons

• Artist: Icarus Bonekind
• Description: I wrote this in high school for a poetry contest, but I didn't win anything. Later, however, I submitted it to a Poetry.com contest, and as a result it was featured in Collected Whispers.
• Date: 01/22/2009
• Tags: lessons monsters castle childhood poetrycom

Good little boys and good little girls
Grow up shattered by the big bad world
They wait to be rescued all night and all day
The monsters who bore them never going away

It doesn’t matter, shadow or light
The bad things can get you without a fight
Your castle’s a lonely and desolate place
No fairies or sprites to brighten the space

Your horses are plastic, your friends make-believe
The one real magician has tricks up his sleeve
Mommy and daddy can’t save you, why?
Because they are the ones from which you hide

When being a kid’s no longer carefree and fun
There’s still one solution, one place to run
Try very hard, and join the cult
Of those who believe that they are adult

Comments

[Dragons_rule_the_sky]

true, true. i like the way the words are phrased. and the rhyming is good. rhyming and having it not sound dumb is hard, good job. it wasn't stressed, it just flowed. its very well written.