The standard dictionary vision of paradise
Is like a painting of when you were a child
Vividly alive
Could hear nature’s songs
Could love the world with wild purity
Innocence delivered tranquil depths
Silence, stillness
Gave you beautiful truths and time to
Drink in the mystery of what it means to be fully alive
Or get inspired by Siberia’s vast forests and French impressionists
And have different interpretations of the Great Unknown
You entered adolescence
Too fast, too much
Fragmented thoughts
Jagged, tangled temptations
Trying to blow your own mind
The storm howled and surged
Instead of bending, break
Then sit quietly in the pitch blackness
Find an alternative definition
Your own funky fantasy of paradise
Who am I to judge?