When Alice left her Wonderland
Her youth slipped thru her hands
Devoting herself to grown-up things
Adult reality clipping her wings
Peter Pan, who once flew so high
Gave to Wendy a symbol
Left his youth locked in a thimble
Now he has bills and frustrated sighs
Childhood is supposed to be an ignorant bliss
Far removed from adulthood trysts
A life of color and animals talking
Not war, not death – not perverts stalking
Fun is make-believe and staring at clouds
Dancing, playing and living out loud
Parents never bothered to tell
About a kid’s future adult hell
Somewhere over the course of time
In a quest to make a child’s future fine
They created little adults that were favored
Who expect life on a platter without their labor
Before us now stands some super race
Thru computers and high-tech run a fast pace
With unimaginative and cruel number crunches
Screwing over friends during martini lunches
You can no longer just ask Alice
Why the world is now filled with malice
She won’t answer questions that hard
Until she gets your credit card
Peter Pan no longer has his fairy dust
He sold it off for a night of lust
Humpty Dumpty fell off the wall
All because of the Market fall
To make this long story short is too late
But can you understand our future’s fate
Childhood innocence has been forsaken
Since their imagination has been taken
Snow White no longer needs a kiss to be woke
Just a shot and few lines of coke
Prince Charming and his sword are no longer dapper
Now it’s an ouzi and a gangster rapper
I am lucky I was raised by the book
No, the other one – about Captain Hook
Where pirates fight for gold on the Spanish Main
Where a prince and true love are the girl’s final gain
Just like in the “NeverEnding Story”
We’ve run out of heroes – only in it for glory
“The Nothing” will become all too real
If children are not permitted to feel
~Ravenwolf |
Submission Name: Extinction of Imagination
