When I was a young child <br />about five to seven years of age. <br />I noticed the neighbour's trees <br />were dirty and sooty and black. <br />Black with smoke chimney coal dust. <br /> <br />The bark was ugly dirty and black <br />the leaves were ugly dirty and black. <br />And barely green if at all in most places, <br />except a little on the side facing the sun. <br />The sun I saw as a beautiful yellow light. <br /> <br />Next to my father's garage grew these trees. <br />They were really tall shrubs, but I was but still <br />a young child, with much to learn in this world, <br />ruled by mean men. Magic and the elfin language, <br />still danced like sparkling stardust in my eyes. <br /> <br /> <br />Next to my father's garage grew these trees. <br />They were so sad dull black lifeless and ugly. <br />I took a bright yellow lively house paint. <br />And painted the trees yellow bright golden yellow, <br />in all sad places I could short armed easily reach. <br /> <br />But I also got paint on my hands face clothes. <br />In my wonderful joy I got paint on my clothes. <br />My apparently best going to town best clothes. <br />My mother punished me for painting the trees. <br />And the leaves a bright joyous yellow colour. <br /> <br /> <br />For making a small part <br />of this dull adult world. <br />A golden magical shinning <br />bright fairy glade place. <br /> <br /> For painting making a small part <br /> of this dull adult fading world. <br /> A golden orb magical shinning <br /> bright mystical fairy glade place. <br /> <br /> For trying to make the tired <br /> world a better magical place. <br /> Thus were childhood dreamers <br /> often beaten into submission. <br /> <br /> By those who failed to see <br /> the divine presence in dreams. <br /> By those who failed to see <br /> the magical sparkle in dreams. <br /> <br /> <br />Copyright © Terence George Craddock<br /><br />Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-golden-memory/
