I Want My Innocence Back

I want to close my eyes
let the world slip away,
all the lies and thorns die,
until my heart can feel
only the touch I once knew
from angels and fairies,
before they sky turned hostile,
land was stalked by villains
and faces flared in fiery flaws.

Take me back to the place
where I could still believe
in myths and magic,
didn’t depend upon the news
to paint life with an icy brush,
stroke over the glitter,
while leaving only trash.

Because when ignorance was my castle,
my insides felt the sun give life,
the day spread before me with its marvels,
oh sweet bliss I knew in my virgin eyes,
what enchantment dwelled in every night.

Now I sit with aged view,
wisdom coming with pain,
knowing what I couldn’t imagine,
but at the price of my youth’s embrace
of imagining there was nothing impossible,
waiting on the morning
expecting it to bring miracles.