I Wish I Could (Be That Child Again) Poem by Vision Ghost

Wish I could return to those many moments
Of sweets and playgrounds and atonements
Well I’m dreaming back to my younger days
When I didn’t know all and nothing stays

I was moved by sunsets instead of voicemail
Played football in a field before internet snail
And everything was simple and happiness easy
TV was funny and cartoons before all turn sleazy

Missing all the many friends I had way back then
All the distance of half a mile was far back when
As I had to call a friend by knocking on a door
To kick about a ball before they had Fifa 1994

Getting dizzy on a tyre we hitched up on a chain
On the climbing frame where dizzy was the game
Before the school disco that was still so very cool
And long before I heard terminologies like “pull”

Everything seemed so happy even when I cried
As my Mum and Dad said no, despite I had tried
And sulking was before I learnt to ever reason
Simple acts of defiance felt like capitol treason

Long before I knew the difference in love and hate
Everything in place and no rebellion to generate
So what the hell has happened to this world now?
Seems too much time has past written on my brow

And now a new generation has since been born
A part of me I never thought would shine I’d sworn
She reflects in me something I could never ever be
Again in a time of technology and longing to be free

But such it is I know this it and there’s no return
So many people don’t understand until they burn
For everything they are now is everything I strive
With the same passion inside for the child alive