Peter Pan And Neverland (Oldish) Poem by Shelby Barker

Watch out
Watch as
your friends start to dissolve
cotton candy on your tongue
On which the only truths are told
Anymore
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Take note
Observe as
puppeteers take place behind your social stage
and make one’s hero a criminal;
who cannot be turned back
Again
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While their strings as entangled as their bodies,
As knotted as their drunk heads of hair
or their electric shot-up blood,
Their throats filled of smoke…
Hold your breath, breathe it in
We all know it’s tempting to -
When they come after you -
Grow up.