Let me sing you off (like how the ship carrying the bodies of the dead sailed off for the Vikings???)…
A requiem for childhood, is what we need, we need to, lay our past to rest, nail that coffin SHUT, so no monsters will ever, CLAW their ways back out from six feet under!
Requiem for childhood, this, is absolutely necessary, for us, to all, bid that final farewell, to dreams, because we don’t have time for dreams, not anymore, between making those monthly payments of an assortment of bills, and pulling in those quadruple overtimes at the offices, we’re, drowning.
something like this, perhaps??? Photo from online…
Requiem for childhood, it’s time, for me, to put you to sleep, for the very last, and final time, it’s time, for you, to leave me for good now, there’s, NO room, in my adult life for something as, innocent, as playful, full-of-wonder as you in my adult life. Don’t you know, the adult world, can SLAUGHTER you, in less than a second’s time, so, I’m, forcing you to leave me, for your own benefit, and, we both know, that despite how much I don’t want you to leave, or how you don’t want to go away, it’s, the BEST option, to keep you safe and sound.
So, I stand here, by this, freshly dug-up grave, with tears in my eyes, I’d, placed you and everything that’s, related to you (all my childhood fantasies, all those what do you want to be when you grow up’s, along with all of my childhood innocence too), inside this, big pine box, and, I’d, scooped the dirt and the ground over you, and, just, poured it all in………
This, is my requiem for you, my childhood, goodbye, wide-eyed, still, dreaming, never wanted to grow up, Alice in Wonderland………
Life, the Obstacle Course 