Grown Ups!

I drew up a paper and sketched a car,

And told them that it will take us to a star,

But they didn’t understand.

I showed them a rose with beautiful folds,

And asked them to see the pleasure it holds,

But they didn’t understand.

I told them that it gives so much happiness even in pain,

To smell the fragrance of the earth during the first rain,

But they didn’t understand.

I showed them paintings of countryside,

And pointed out the secrets they hide,

But they didn’t understand.

And then I gave up,

And then I grew up,

And then I wept,

Away in the night,

And then I cried,

Over the lost innocence,

And I mourned,

Through the darkness.

For

The grown ups didn’t understand,

The pleasure in simple things on this land.