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When I was a kid
March 29, 2023
When I was a kid
Adults told me to put my hands against my ears;
They said
I would hear the ocean,
I believed them.
I was young and naive,
I fell into a trap,
Of little white lies.
They never stopped either.
A smile for deception,
A fiction,
A fib.
I am now full of wisdom and despair
I put my hands on my ears,
And to listen to that same ocean air.
The irony of being old and young at one time
Anywhere,
Somewhere,
Elsewhere.
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It’s about growing up and realizing that sometimes we wish to be as young as we once were. A loss of innocence you could say. Even if it its doing something so minuscule to feel the nostalgia. But one might interpret it a little different the poem can mean more than one thing.