by Sonlight

as a child
i understood things on a different level
but now
i see them as they really are and were
and can be
and will be
and I am not a child anymore
so this reality
is what is real
here in the now
right now
right here
this minute is all I have to get through
the next one will take care of itself when it arrives
but right now
i am not a child anymore
and each day has enough troubles of its own
without borrowing extra from tomorrow
or even later today

I am not a child anymore
and I no longer speak or act or think as a child
nor do I react as one
with age comes retrospect
and interspection
and I can think
before I act
about how i will handle a thing
i have choices now
that I didn't have then
and I can choose to be free
and that is what I choose
for this minute
on this day
right now