Velcro Shoes

Notice that as children we need not say a thing

And be the best of friends over a Haribo ring

But as soon as we’re adults we don’t get along

We can say what we want and still get it wrong

As children we are encouraged to follow a dream

No matter how outlandish or even extreme

But when we get older and still want to strive

People think it ridiculous to even want to try

We start out in this world wearing Velcro shoes

And go out when we’re old wearing Velcro shoes

Does it really matter how we act in between?

That we learn to tie laces and dare to dream?

As kids we are berated for the smallest of lies

But the nose of an adult is bigger in size

That’s right Pinocchio’s lesson is with us from youth

But forgotten as soon as one’s long in the tooth

They always say ‘do as we say, not as we do’

And repeat it like a mantra for kids to construe

As soon as they say it, it has a familiar ring

For an adult is the most hypocritical thing

We start out in this world wearing Velcro shoes

And go out when we’re old wearing Velcro shoes

You learned to tie laces but the joy passed you by

Once the child in you left in the blink of an eye

Kids view the world with very few flaws

But don’t as an adult taint it with yours

Or play Ghandi when the extent of your plan

Is to accept what we can’t and change what we can

While an adult insists that they were once young

To a kid you just speak with forked tongue

There’s no point convincing when all is told

In more reasons than one an adult will always be old

We start out in this world wearing Velcro shoes

And go out when we’re old wearing Velcro shoes

But while you might be an adult with a cynical mind

Lose the glint in your eye and you’ll end up blind