Let Me Keep

always thought my brain lived in my chest cavity

beating out thoughts

heart child

heart child

heart child

can you feel your thoughts pulse?

stuck between stars and earth

I've always had rolling hills beneath my feet

always wonder whether

I should roll down them

or walk through them

be sensible

or be whimsical

I want to grow wings you see

feel the moon between my fingers

and hold starlight in cupped hands

but be rational

there's a world there, that doesn't know

doesn't know

of all that lurks behind closed books

so be rational, be rational, child

be reasonable

writing, it isn't reasonable

caring so much, oh honey, it isn't profitable

And don't drag your skirt through ocean water

it isn't sensible

be reasonable

be rational

but I can't, not when faced with

flower chains and poetry books

sun light and star bright

first star I see tonight

wish I may, wish I might,

let me keep my whimsy

let me keep my whimsy

sometimes, it's all that keeps me going

my light footing,

gentle wind whisperings

I often think

I'm more than ready to grow old, but growing up

that's another matter

so let me keep my fairytales

let me keep my castles

keep my whimsy

I intend to always be a heart child

feeling thoughts instead of thinking them

Once I fought this

but it this isn't a light head, just a warm soul

So let me always keep a warm soul,

A hearth lit for wandering thought