Wonder
She used to ponder what was right and wrong...
Questioning everything beneath the sun
During her exploration of rabbit holes and deep descents
She never even wondered where all the other people went...
Her favorite backdrop was with twilight in view
Yes, she loved the skies so blue
But there was something magnificent about dusk and the way God twisted it
His mighty hand made darkness out of the lightest hues
She enjoyed the magentas and lavender that were painted on the sunrise, too
But nothing matched when the black bleeds through
Every night she watched the sky accrue its nightly bruise
She knew what it was like to lose, knows less on what it’s like to live
Before she could even try to, it’s interrupted by unbridled ques
And when those internal voices bark, she has the LOUDEST heart
“You’re so lonely...”
Alone!? How could she be that when she was accompanied by a thousand stars
“Don’t you wonder who you really are? Wonder how you got this far?”
She disregards, yawns and stretches her arms higher than the mountains are
A girl with no history, no memory nor remnants
Born with no destiny but to merely exist in the present
She’s only 10, most would consider her lost yet she’s fine
The days that go by mean nothing when you’ve got no concept of time
No identity, not bound by the ball and chain of fate
She never worries about tomorrow because every day’s a clean slate
Where is she today? On an Amazon jungle cruise in the midst of June?
Or maybe she’s a NASA scientist, somewhere stranded on a distant moon
One day though soon, the monotony of life will start crushing her slowly
Reality will set in and society will complete its consumption of you wholly
But for now I let you dwell in the dreamland that you’re living in
I look at my daughter and smile...what I wouldn’t give to be a kid again
