Where Children Go

You know those places that only children know?

The nooks and cranny’s; the hideaways

that grown-ups don’t think about?

That’s where imagination lives.

Kids are drawn there

because magic fills the air there.

They breathe it in and it fills them with ideas.

You know those places that only children know?

Where a box can become a spaceship,

or a house; a grove of trees a theatre,

some old crates are a school.

In places like that kids can just be,

The don’t have to pull up their socks

Or sit up straight

Or say please and thank you

Yes mam, no sir.

You know those places that only children know?

There, they’re just kids.

Or rather, kings and queens

and teachers and actors

and octopuses and lions

And loud and feisty and shouty and

You know those places that only children know?

We all need a place like that.