Child

You’re a child
Now go play with your blocks
And build yourself an empire structured by your ego
tied with ropes twined of pride
I can even lend you my shame as your shelter
And pave the floors with my humiliation
So that every time you pan your head up or down
You’ll remember why you live in solitude

You’re a child
No doors or windows needed
Because the only company you will ever need
Is a mirror
Resting in front of your pedestal
Make sure you bring a ladder
Because it’s a long way up
And enjoy staring at your crown of ignorance
As you hold your staff of self-pity

You’re a child
So keep laughing
And show everyone your toothless smile
Prove to them that its absence doesn’t hurt
Not even when you pulled it out yourself
Put it under your pillow
But don’t fall asleep,
Because your dreams will be infested with memories of that painful pull

You’re a child
So keep documenting your height on the door frame
But know you’ll never grow
Not in the ways you wish to
And cry when you realize your mind is still narrow
And your wisdom is still limited

But it’s okay
Because you’re a child
With an empty empire
And a plastic crown

Bucket

A bucket. The only metaphorical way that helps me understand the growth of a person. A bucket starts off empty and clean. Eventually the bucket will be filled. constantly filled with different liquids or solids. Most of the time it can leave debris from its past, overlapping other substances or mixing together. Over time this bucket will ware out and become effective on how well it works.

A baby. Born into confusion with pure innocents and an empty bucket. Growing up you get yourself -or get thrown- into situations that effect the way you perceive and deal with things. These types of experiences leave its remains that eventually start building up. Everyone grows up getting filled to the rim with these incidents that haunts their every action, sometimes influencing it on others. So we carry around these buckets, straining our backs to avoid building the strength to just empty them. Some ignore it, let it eat away at their mind without even realizing the damage its doing.The only problem is, we cant go out and buy a new bucket, the most we can do is free ourselves from the heavy load or throw a lid on it.