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Take a step back from who you are today Remember yourself as a young, hopeful child When everything was refreshingly new And there were no pressing responsibilities for you Remember when everything had to be done then? Trying your best to please Not always managing to succeed Always making a mistake Not knowing there were many more to make Remember the things you wanted to do, but couldn’t? The things you did then, or do now, but shouldn’t? Remember incessantly being told No? And all of the places you weren’t allowed to go? Remember when everything you wanted to be and do Was the opposite of what your mother or father wanted for you? Remember the times you did just as you pleased? The times you lied with relish and ease? You wanted to grow up too soon But everything was so unfair And no-one seemed to care Remember? These are things all children go through Remember what it was like for you
© Nicolette Gordon 1997 |