Fixing The Shadow

 

 

 

I found something true in the book ‘Peter Pan’
“You can’t catch me and make me a man”
Deep in my chest, my heart’s running wild
Scorned and denied since I was a child

Like Peter and Wendy, be happy or fall
Dance with the devil that lives in us all

Captain Hook and Peter Pan
Feral child and frightened man

We dance the fight both young and old
It’s thoughts of flight that make us fall
Finding our Darlings have grown up and flown
Adds frost to the chill that we feel in our bones

Their story the same;
The Hook and the Pan
From devilish child
To beast of a man

Did Barrie sit back, his stories all told?
Was the mote in his eye fire of youth growing cold?

The lost boys, once happy
Abandoned the Pan
Imagine the sorrows that haunted the man

Magic and kisses and fairies and love
Belong to the children who fly high above

Monsters and pirates and clocks in the night
Belong to the adults who are certain they’re right

The story needs both – a battle to win
Respect for our children is where we begin

 

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