Innocence - Poem

We shamed away the innocence 

Redefining mess as something that needs forgiveness 

Building bars around the stars 

Blinders to keep my mind writing 

stories that keep life boring 

Never soaring 

Always sore in the places 

Where faces seem misplaced 

In a world that forgot 

that grace lives in mistakes 

And heaven lies in the eyes that see 

polka dotted skies 

And seas that live in trees 

And monkeys that hug the bees 

In a world that forgot 

that innocence is the key 

To all of our creativity

Innocence…in no sense 

In no sense will I make my life a penance 

a mask to wear over my natural reverence 

To hold in magic just because 

it doesn’t make sense 

In no sense will I become senseless 

numbing out just so I can pay rent 

To be heaven sent whilst always fearing the wrong step 

When did praying turn into lines of words 

that rip my heart from singing with the birds 

or digging in the dirt 

To make a mud cover shirt 

the art that gave birth 

to a world filled with worth 

When did learning become earning 

A right to be on this earth 

Picking up scraps 

of papers with lifeless words 

Creating cages 

around the youthful sages

to keep this world 

seeing for ages and ages 

Innocence…a word

of intimidation 

Fearful of the freedom that comes 

Where definitions come undone

A life no longer needing to be won 

Innocence, 

brings chaos to conditioning 

begs us to come alive again

from within

To untether the thoughts 

the keep our inner-child hiding 

To become nothing in a world filled with “knowing”

Lovingly tending to our seeds 

to keep them growing 

Innocence asks us to be, 

without making sense 

Sense 

this dense penance to keep in the brilliance 

that has always been within us 

Sense 

which tells us that a reason is needed 

to simple be…free 

Let’s create again without the limits 

that ever told us 

It had to make sense…

I dare you, color outside the lines 

Go back to your inner-sense 

and let yourself shine