alix

irredescent:

Grow up with me

Let’s run in fields and through the dark together

Fall off swings and burn special things and both play outside in bad weather

Let’s eat badly,

Let’s watch adults drink wine and laugh at their idiocy

Let’s sit in the back of the car,

Making eye-contact with strangers driving past making them uncomfortable

Not caring, not swearing, don’t fuck

Let’s both reclaim our superpowers,

The ones we will have and lose with our milk teeth

The ability not to fear social awkwardness,

To panic when locked in the cellar, still sure there’s something down there

And while picking through pillows each feather,

Let’s both stay away from the edge of the bed, forcing us closer together

Let’s sit in public with ice-cream all over both our faces,

Sticking our tongues out at passers by,

Let’s cry, let’s swim, let’s everything

Let’s not find it funny lest someone falls over

Classical music is boring,

Poetry baffles us both,

There is nothing that’s said is what’s meant

Plays are long tiresome, sullen and filled with hours that could have be spent rolling down hills and grazing our knees on cement

Let’s hear stories and both lose our innocence,

Learn about parents and forgiveness,

death and morality,

kindness and art

Thus losing both of our innocent hearts,

But at least we won’t do it apart

Grow up with me.