Childhood

Childhood

By Peter Parker

I once believed that childhood was a place - a distant land you sailed away from the moment you grew taller, wore bigger shoes, or signed your first bank form.

But the truth, as I've now come to see, is simpler - and more magical.

Childhood isn't a place you leave behind.
It's a voice that whispers beneath your thoughts.
A giggle trapped under your seriousness.
A pair of muddy shoes hiding beneath your polished ones.

It lives quietly inside us all - no matter our age, race...