Ode To Imagination
You, you fill my head with fantasies
Or so my mother says
You make me seem distracted
Says the teacher at the board
They say you’re a silly child’s dream
Or sometimes “too active”
They only say that because they don’t really have you
They lost you, my friend, a while ago
I know it seems a silly notion though
No one can lose you
Not if they don’t want to
They sort of forget about you
And put you in the back of their minds
They leave you out of conversations
Dreams even
They learn that if they associate with you
When they are “too old” whatever that means
That they won’t get a job
Or succeed in life
So they become accountants
Crunching numbers
Or lawyers
Arguing and reading papers
Following rules
Not escaping
From their frames of mind
Because they forget
They forget about you
But not me, my friend
You’re my pal to the end
You help me to see things no one sees
Create worlds tailored to me
My interests
You’re awesome, my friend
Nothing is better than you
You help me to run through a field of never ending lavenders
You help me to smell the cool sea air
Or ride dragons
Or time-travel
Or fence
Or paint
(though I’m not much good at that)
You help me to design plots
Adventures
Stories
Recipes
All of my resources at my fingertips
Oh, my friend
It’ll be me and you to the end
Imagination
Me and Imagination
Imagination and Me
Conquering the world
Galaxy
Moment
Century
One day at a time