Damnation a familiar sensation. <br /> <br />Compassion and joy and constant friend, <br />Sunshine, happiness couldn't end. <br />Sparkling excitement, innocence clear, <br />Now all gone. Replaced by fear. <br /> <br />Ages dictates darkness calling. <br /> <br />False freedom's manacles placed <br />By caring demons clothed <br />As simple pretenders luring you in <br />To an open prison for agile years. <br />Curse of capability cast <br />Upon the brow of child now grown, <br />Unlifting, unyielding, till death it take. <br />Abstract innocenct pre-adolescence <br />Slashed by enslaving maturity swords. <br />Knowledge of generosity, kindness, <br />Tainted by dull logic snares. <br />Mercy lost in ruthless fight, <br />Futile strive for life's lost cause. <br />Solitary monotanous lives drag on... <br /> <br />...Mean nothing. <br /> <br />Childhood liberty tamed, matured, <br />Happy bliss experience cured.<br /><br />Steffi Webster<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/tears-for-childhood/
