Remember that special childhood toy? <br />Where is it now? <br />Remember how safely guarded you were from the dark monsters that lived under your bed? <br />Comfort that was given freely each time tears wet your face. <br />The it brought when no one else could. <br />That certain smell, and how it felt deeply snuggled into your arms. <br />The silent vigil it has kept all these years on all your secrets and dreams. <br />All the world's security placed upon the shoulders of one very wonderful friend. <br />An everlasting companion we cast aside. <br />Left, tucked away in a corner as a childhood fleeted into our memories. <br />The key to our past. <br />The gateway to unlock the passageway to the child inside.<br /><br />Rhonda Davis<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/teddy-bears-and-lions/
