Grow Up With Me

Let's run in fields and fear the dark together

Fall of swings, and burn special things

And both play outside in bad weather

Let's eat badly

Let's watch adults drink wine and laugh at their idiocy

Let's sit in the back of the car

Making eye contact with strangers driving past

Making them uncomfortable

Not caring

Not swearing

Don't fuck

Let's both reclaim our superpowers

The ones we all have and lose with our milk teeth

The ability not to fear social awkwardness

To panic when locked in the cellar

Still sure there's something down there

And while picking from pillows each feather

Let's both stay away from the edge of the bed

Forcing us closer together

Let's sit in public, with ice cream all over both our faces

Sticking our tongues out at passers by

Let's cry

Let's swim

Let's everything

Let's not find it funny lest someone falls over

Classical music is boring

Poetry baffles us both

There's nothing that's said is what's meant

Plays are long, tiresom, sullend, and filled

With hours that could be spent rolling down hills

And grazing our knees on cement

Let's hear stories and both lose our inocence

Learn about parents and forgiveness

Death and morality

Kindness and art

Thus losing both of our innocent hearts

But at least we won't do it apart

Grow up with me