Grown Up

Does Peter Pan EVER grow up?

Do we ever grow up?
Or is our youth pulled down like a sinking boat in a stormy sea?

Youth slips away.
Like a melting sand castle.
Except just a few memories.
A few grains of sand.

Only the lucky ones can row their boat gracefully into the sea of adulthood.
Just like Captain Hook.
But he was a pirate, a master of the seas.

Maybe its true.
Maybe we never grow up.
Maybe we just skate forever on a frozen lake.
Making imprints of memories with the blades of our skates.

Until the ice breaks.

We killed our own youth.
We’re forced to grow up.
With a first kiss.
A first dance.
First time.
For everything.

We all grow up,
Don’t we Peter?