PERHAPS NOW IS THE TIME

Have you ever wanted to recapture the child you use to be?

Who would ride a bike out in the rain?

or climb the highest tree?

The child who believed in the magic of Santa Claus

Who never wondered why when you looked up on a moonless night

you saw starfish in the sky.

The child who discovered castles in the clouds,

who for no reason would start to sing,

who was able to find beauty in the tiniest of things?

Who….could sit for hours…upon hours

watching a butterfly

or a bee?

Whose world was one of love

and kindness

and generosity?

Have you ever thought

in a world that’s filled with hatred

with wars

and bigotry

that perhaps now is the time to recapture 

that child we use to be.