Remember? when we spun around...
And around?
We could feel the Earth spinning with us.
The trees, the leaves, the sky, the clouds
transformed into a rainbow.
When blankets created castles
whose dark rooms and corridors
were enough,
to protect us from dragons,
the Demons
of the world
and at night
fireflies, lit our way.
Now, we reach out,
try to hold strange stars.
The cardboard box tunnels
are to narrow,
my knees rub the sides,
carpet between the flaps burn my ankles,
This rocket just won't lift
and the moon, is to far
to wait.
So