Childhood Missed



We all wished when children,
To become adults.
When adults,
Our childhood is missed to wish...
Time that has passed too fast and quickly,
Children again to want and wish.
With our childishness not to rush.
So children we act to pretend,
Adults we had never been.
And some of us?
Some of us have stayed that way.
Refusing to grow up.
Throwing tantrums.
Wanting those tantrums we throw,
Forgiven by adults.
Adults...
Who we still can not show,
Anything  we knew to know...
About respect to learn what that is.
To give that lesson to teach it to children!
You know...
The ones who today,
Are undisciplined, disrespectful and rude!
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Submitted by lpahtillah on September 19, 2021

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Scheme ABBCDCEFGHIJKLBBLLMALIN
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 605
Words 111
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 23

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