I Was a Kid Once Too…

Yeah, I know, hard to believe,

I was once a kid also,

Growing up thru the usual,

Problems with fights,

My teeth,

Long hair,

All the stupid things we know now to be true ,

Never, then though, had any trouble with my sight.

Sure my parents were nothing but grown up kids,

Not knowing how to deal with children,

Never having been properly raised themselves,

But having kids anyway, hopefully, these will right,

Any wrongs done to them as well.

I didn’t till after my 20’s passed,

Clean up my act,

To become what I am in fact,

A lot more mature, I think,

Than that of my folks, at that time,

But, also, that time was a much more naive time,

When parents thought that,

A beating for the kids every now and then,

Was where it was at,

Or at least so did my folks,

And most others I knew.

Old shows show that fact, even now,

When Freud would be happy to see,

That his theories are finally be used,

Children are no longer just a hindrance,

They are just little adults, having to learn the right way.

I have no kids of my own, fortunately or unfortunately for them,

Never had the urge till just of late,

Now with all the meds I take, I guess I cannot have them,

But, actually, at almost 50, I find that I would not want too,

As they wouldn’t be 10 till I was sixty,

And that would be no fun for them,

Hard to teach him/her all they need to know,

Ball playing and such,

When I have now, even a hard time to take a stand,

Let alone doing so as I know I will, and…

                                                                                    (ed)