Boy Wonder

Boy wonder residing within

How long it’s been since we spoke

Your laughter breathes weight off my shoulders

Your innocent smile shifts the world’s boulders.

Many are the given paths

To those who wish to seek

But he who follows all roads laid out

Follows none to want and to need.

In days long gone, you were jubilant

Spirited, strong of will, carefree

Not a care in the world for her darker recesses

Not a worry to stomach or plead.

Yet here you are, boy wonder

In this hour that pivots

Moving the needle closer to our goals

A Unicorn horn for life’s favoured foals.

Boy wonder show me the way

Naive and fickle you are not

Brave, resilient, a combative soul

Our hour comes upon twilight’s toll.