An ode to a rose-tinted childhood
My childhood was not so long ago.
Outside all summer, collecting
Creepy crawlies, toads, butterflies and freckles.
Inside all winter by the fire reading a book.
(Children's hour on tv being just that, one hour)
Today childhood is all buttons and lights,
Whatever the weather watching tv,
On laptops and the very latest Galaxy i-lumiphone,
Collecting nothing but facebook friends and trolls,
(and clips of cat and dogs in clothes, and pranks gone wrong).
How I wish the only trolls they knew
Lived under bridges with an appetite for goats,
But at least unlike my great-great-greats
They know nothing of polio, cholera or TB,
(or war or rationing or teacher wielding canes)
And these days rose-tinted glasses are cheap
So we can have pink coloured days,
(But lets go outside and enjoy the sun,
and picnics, rain and puddles, wind and kites)
By Izzy Silver
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