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SPC: The Castle

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I will build myself a castle
of ifs and evers and might-have-beens
and I will place in on the sand
in the middle of hurricane country
just because I know you will protest
such impracticality.

And I will fill this castle with things
such as you don’t like to see:
suits of armor and battle axes,
silken dresses and glass slippers,
and Monsters and Angels and Heroes
who will sit at my table and have supper.

My halls will be lit with starlight
and lined with the stone from Heaven’s floor.
The clocks will never strike the same time twice
and we will ignore them anyway.
Guests must dance the tarantella with a stranger
or they will risk eviction from my home.

I will laugh in this place, but it will not be that sort
that we make in polite company
when the jokes aren’t really funny.
No, the laughter here will be real!
Giggles and guffaws and belly laughs
and snickers and chortles and snorts.

You may leave your Sorrow at the door
and collect it if you must leave.
Worries and Cares shall be put into the closet.
The Tears may wait by the fire to warm themselves.
Anger has no place here and will not be admitted
even if it comes in the guise of a friend.

All around the castle will be a garden
full of plants that have no name
and creatures that have too many.
You may walk here, or fly, or bicycle,
though you were never one to stop for roses.
Or were you once, long ago?

Go on, wail and moan
at such nonsense as I have created!
Deny my impossibilities!
Tell me you gave up such things as these,
and then say you don’t feel the pull of wonder
tugging at your heartstrings!
Latest entry for :iconcalivinguy: Summer Poetry Challenge. This prompt is #48: Childhood.

This is one of those instances when one must decide to reject reality and substitute one's own. You'd be amazed at the "adults" that want to join in. :D

I love this one.
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I absolutely adore this