Leonard Rebello - GROWNUP

Don’t utter about your happiness aloud the devil crosses it they say

It doesn’t seem to end now coz the rain outside will never let the sun burn my eyes away

I wanted to swim in the pool of sorrows but was put into a raging river instead

Realty boxed, kicked and left me dead without any bloodshed

Pondering what does growing up really mean

Is it to be pragmatic and end up butchering your tender emotions unclean?

Don’t you smile as if you do it for charity

Don’t open up because you may have to pay for it dearly.

Don’t want to be matured don’t want to grow up

No loosing any more innocence towards the long march to a grownup

Don’t want to be stuffed into the coffin of society

Don’t want all you fools after me like some parasitic wormy

But does anyone have a solution to the eternal ever gnawing problem

How can I persuade people that I have grown up with all the freedom.

Leonard Rebello

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