Accidental Poet

Let Them Be a Kid

These days

A child grows up too fast

All too soon your days

Have run from first to last

For life is too short

Especially when we’re young

And childhood is the sweetest

Where you learn to have fun

All too often

We teach the little ones

To act like us adults

Cuteness overload reruns

But blind are we

We who always look back

Must we steal their childhood?

The one they’ll lack

Let them play

Let their dreams run free

For them to make memories

From climbing a tree

For they need to play

With childhood toys

Of baby dolls and Tonka Trucks

For all the girls and boys

Please don’t make them

Grow up too soon

Keep their eyes Earthbound

Before they shoot for the Moon

Let them be ghosts and witches

Goblins and Ghouls for Halloween

When crazy laughing

Turns to a lavish scream

Let them have a childhood

Like most of us did

Even if you didn’t

Let them be a kid

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