Unicorns And Castles

Enthralled with life as a little girl
I looked at it from twirls and swirls
Somersaults and big cartwheels
In my festival of magic

I envisioned kings and queens
Princesses and dragon seas
Sandbox kingdoms full with scenes
Of unicorns and castles

I was enchantingly free
Living blissfully

Others called it fantasy
But I knew better, I believed
I remembered, I retrieved
A life with wizards, elves and me

We could do most anything
By wishing it to be and then
Look up here, oh, look my friend
I’ve sprouted wings to fly with

We were enchantingly free
Living blissfully

Later on the veils came down
A grown-up person I’d become
Memories faded, lips turned down
In solemn contemplation

About the life that I could make
Within the rules of church and state
Within the limits that were placed
On fairies long forgotten

I longed to be enchantingly free
Living blissfully

Now my eyes are bright and old
I find my wisdom taking hold
It comes not from my grown-up toil
But unicorns and castles

And everything my childhood grew
In sandbox kingdoms, it was true
Now I know I always knew
I only had forgotten

I am enchantingly free
Living blissfully…….free