Lost Girl

 This is a poem I wrote for my intro to creative writing class. The assignment was to write about something you miss or want back. I wrote about wanting to go back to my childhood, which I'm sure some could relate to. Poetry is not my forte, but I'm learning. Heads up, it does sound like a short story in a poem layout.

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Lost Girl

When I was a little girl I wanted to go to Neverland.

To be among the fox, bear, twin raccoons, skunk, and rabbit.

What animal would I be? 

A wolf among them I would be.

I would howl at the moon with all my might.

Attack the rabbit like it was my prey.

We would tousle with each other to the ground, the dust covering us

Like a blanket given on a cold night.

We would laugh knowing we were never enemies.

Fox would teach me how to shoot bows and arrows. 

He'll be the older brother I never had.

Straight-line we would fall when Peter Pan arrives. 

The euphoric feeling, I would get when he praise me

For a shot I made.

Or the drooping of my wolf ears when he scolds me for fighting

With rabbit.

The feeling of pleasure when he won his fights against the villainous Captain Hook.

Flying with Tinkerbell feeling limitless.

Sleeping with nature looking at the stars.

Swimming with the mermaids, amazed at their beauty.

Free I would be like a wild animal that's been trapped.

A child I would stay.

Staying a child is what I’m after.

Who wouldn't want to live like that?

Alas, those can only be blissful dreams.

At eighteen I realized Peter Pan can be the hero

Or villain.

Children would call him a hero who saved them 

From the beast known as adulthood

Adults would call him a villain, a pedophile who

Snatched kids away.

Me, I see him as a child who didn’t want to grow up.

A child who saw the world for what it was.

A child who has been traumatized beyond recognition.

A child who wanted to stay a child.

Sadly, we can never stay children,

But we would have the memories.

I may not be at Neverland physically,

But mentally I am there.