Childhood...

Childhood is a time when innocent eyes scan all aspects of the world and perceive Truth and Beauty. Childhood is a time that moves us from plain, pebbled shores to distant isles of bliss. On vision's sailboats, we drift across seas of vast possibilities. Childhood is a time when miracles are woven by shafts of dream- like sunlight in the crib of spring. Childhood is a time of blue and green consciousness of rivers and fields and lush, lucid lullabies. Childhood is a time when this life slowly unfolds its myriad textures like a lotus flower, blessed with Eastern promises. Childhood is a time filled with wonder and oneness. Boundaries dissolve in oceans of harmony. Childhood was a time when the stars shone like diamonds in the evening skies. Guardian angels kept us snug in pillowed sleep. O childhood was a time of soft summer breezes, when we dwelt in the treehouse of sweet enchantment! Now it seems so far away. O childhood was the first flash of verdant Eden before Time's darkening and the Fall's bitter coming! Childhood was a time that stretched days and hours into infinity. Yet now all we know are limits.