Never Grow Up Poem by Kevin Patrick II

Never grow up
And never cave in
to that captivity called adulthood
That mangles your inner spark
And leaves tired cinders

Floating,
Lost and forgetting
to the ether of laughing darkness


Resist the bitterness,
the papercut resentments
And the accumulated grievances
Reflecting through that jaded Pollyanna
Staring cruelty at you
through the trenches of wisdom lines
Those expressways of creases
carrying the years that drove on your skin
Leaving you another marionette
Of sutured porcelain

Don't become a prisoner
Of grey haired fatalism
Or let that subcutaneous fat
Deposit a growing nihilism
Entropy will consume your body
To liver spotted relics
swollen varicose veined ruins
In a shell of what you were
But never let that gnarled skin
Become you in your soul


Fight that spite
Seething like a venom in your blood
Corroding your moods into toxic residues
Where all you have is queen jealousy
To keep you warm

fight that iciness
When time has avalanched upon you
And you cant dig through to the remnants joy
Or discover the survivors of hope
In another tomorrow


Keep the child in you
Don't let this world crush it
Into the shells that become our tombs
Become a chrysalis again
In natures defiance



Winter comes for all of us
But we don't have to be its coldness
never surrender the spark that's inside you
so promise to never cave in
and never grow up