I Love You, Peter Pan

19 years had passed since he had seen the child,
                                    and yet,
he had not grown a single inch,
sprouted any unwanted hair,
his voice did not thicken,
he had not lost the sparkle in his eyes.

In fact, the boy had not changed at all. After 19 years, he was still a child.

"How is this possible?" inquired the man with confusion.

"You see sir," said the boy while he was lighting a cigarette, "When I was young, I put my heart in this box, and kept it hidden under my bed."

As soon as he was done speaking, the boy's eyes drifted between the man and the box, and then, with shaky hands, he offered the man the box.

Knowing what would happen, the man then took the boy's heart into his hands, and it slowly started to crack and chip away.

The sparkle in the boy's eyes was gone, but for the first time in 19 years,


The Boy Smiled....

Reviews

[Lourisa]

Fantastic work, Kaliou. The saying about it being better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all, comes to mind.

[Babieegirl]

The fact that i am insabely in love with peter pan, i was drawn to this poem, immediately. reading the title, made me expect something more different than the outcome, which i love so much about this poem. The whole poem itself, it was a great poem. I loved it how you can see the whole negative side of immortality and being the same forever.

[Max]

Quite interesting. A nice statement about the downsides of immortality and eternal youth.

I like it very much :)

[Kenneth The Poet]

Very cool.

[TJ]

The symbolism in this poem was magnificent. It perfectly shows that as we age and experience things we will surely lose our innocence and the facts of the real world will chip away at our hearts but we enjoy it bc we all want to grow up and we all want to know the truth

[Helpless]

wow....

[clairvoyantmars]

oh, wow, very sinister and mysterious. very nice. :))