One,

       Two,

              Three,

      Not it!

Innocence is only temporary,

imaginary friends are short lived.

Hide and seek with my tattered, warn teddy bear

one day just vanished, and he was never played with again.

And now my best friend sits stranded in the basement. 

Why can’t I stay hidden with him from this battle?

Growing up like this wasn’t expected,

Turning alone and disconnected.

Not just from my teddy bear but from the world.

The world I thought I knew.

I take note of every decision my parents make,

I thought I could follow their every move and be successful

But in the busy suburb streets their jobs crumble.

1 Mississippi…

                       2 Mississippi…

Why did hide-and-go-seek have to end?

Mutters of unemployment and struggles wash up,

Drowning the 21^st century in debt and depression.

They say I had to find out eventually,

Recession, poverty, sin.

Young and alone, I now where do I hide?

Behind tweets? Texts? Posts?

Cannot seem to confront my confusion face to face

I don’t know where I’m going,

Who do I look up too?

Isn’t trying to start a career hopeless in this mess?

My childhood became corrupt in this recession,

Why did hide-and-go-seek have to end?

Come out,

               Come out,

                              Where ever

                                               you are!

I am no longer unstoppable,

Naive and simple-minded.

I am lost, but still crawling on,

Figuring out this world on my own.

Ready or not

  here I come!

Why did hide-and-go-seek have to end?