Never Growing Up

Never Growing Up

By R.e. Taylor

I did what was expected

Sixteen years of school

Which taught me how to think

Just learn the facts

Recite them back to us

That is what they wanted

But I could not give it to them

I thought for myself

Reading and creating stories

With dragons and princesses

Elves and massive castles

And unicorns running in the fields

To me growing up wasn’t learning facts

Growing up was losing your imagination

That was something I refused to do

So, I decided never to grow up

And decades later I still haven’t