Searching For Lost Innocence

                    

Searching For Lost Innocence 

Why can’t I enjoy my life now?

As I did when I was a child

The world which was once wonderful

Why now appears to be so wild?

Waste buttons, colored piece of chalk

Key without lock, all were a pleasure

But why now they have become trash

Where did I find different meaning for treasure?

Why can’t I love and believe fairies now

Where did I lose my innocence?

In drawing, writing or come reading

As I did why don’t I see my excellence?

Why do the twinkling stars, sun and moon

Seem no more a wonder of the sky?

Why amusement is very rare now?

When did all questions in my mind die?

Why can’t I smile heartily now

At anyone for a single word of praise?

Now my lips just stretch a bit

As for flattery I have lost craze

Why am I unable to glare now?

At people I dislike and smile at friends

Now why the smiles and glares are reserved

To mostly suit the latest trends?

Though there was not much wisdom

There is abundance of joy in innocence

I don’t want the knowledge I have

For innocence I can happily trade intelligence

                                                                                                   By: Farida Rizwan

Art by Farheena

As I entered my teens, I was shocked to find that growing up and being an adult was not going to be fun..

I was worried and this poem is the outcome of my fears back then.

Fortunately I have discovered the child in me again and l am loving my life now...