You grow like high hopes
fast and courageous
innocent adventurous and youthful,
like a blooming flower bud
my buddy
though you race rush and rave, with reckless abandon
discovering yourself
embracing the danger as adventure
embraced experiences learned from in the most rocky of ways
and like an ever flowing waterfall
tears fill you inside
that you have yet to release
unknowing how, without prompt
ignorance, being more confusion and question,
than bliss
though bliss, all the same
but still you blossom
stretching towards the sun
like great vines lining gigantic leafs
gaining wisdom by the stroke of pastel kissed horizons
and the circumference of chalky glow,
shimmering over the hungry night
where you sleep soundly
away from my arms
with vague and colorful dreams
exempt of my face
though I dream of watching you
warm, safe, and curled up
believing the world is your big jungle gym
as you close those small unjaded eyelids
that conceal big glossy eyes that believe in fairy tales
with an energetic mind
sparked by excited electrical currents
rivaling Zeus’ mighty lightening bolts
just beginning to know itself
then you wake
with your sleepy, soft, innocent, vulnerable, and tamed demeanor
ripe in obedience and acquiescence
non combative-as sweet and chill, as a summer’s breeze
the sleep built in your eyes-
crust in crevices
like mud from a spring night’s drizzle
dried into dirt
by the brilliance of the new day’s shine-
now fades and falls
once you’ve gotten your wits
quaking to the child-like, yet thunderous energy that exudes your being
and you become happy and light
without yesterday’s pains weighing on you-
a gift adults lose quick,
even taller and more perceptive
as if more conscious of your faculties
and how you can push them to their new limits
like a superhero testing his powers
you are boundless my son
the world is yours
and as long as no one changes your mind
that truth will never change
then one day,
you will change the world
because you love like,
and look thru the eyes of,
Angels
and you grow like high hopes
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