Childhood – Todd's Place

Vanilla

A short poem about the sense of taste, written for the Intro to Poetry course.

Inside of me, the inner child I’ve known so well, these many years Is urging me, “be free and wild” “Cast off your silly grown-up fears” Yet here I sit, so meek and mild I work and fret and pay the bills A longing sigh, to live beguiled To sing of dreams, to roll downContinue reading “The Inner Child”