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Be My Neverland

My safe space

By Jesse LeePublished about a month ago 1 min read

Take me to a place like Neverland,

A fun place where I never have to be a man,

Where I can jump and run and fight for fun,

Instead of fighting for the scraps left when others are done.

I’ll happily be a lost boy or even Pan,

As long as you don’t ask me to surrender who I am.

I’ll hang with mermaids and pirates and my fellow lads,

And my ancestors removed from their native lands.

I’ll head to the second star to the right,

And straight on through the entire night.

I won’t even need an atlas or nav,

Just a coat and hat is all I have.

All worries buried in the past,

Until their memory fades at last.

I’ll live in the moment each day anew,

No longer caring what others want me to.

Is there a place existing in this plane,

Where I didn’t need to travel so far away?

A safe place to retake

That which no one else would ever make,

Where there’s no cares or scares for my inner child’s sake,

A place laced with those that make safe space and won’t take or fake a smile that betrays their true face.

Or is it with you here,

hand in hand,

Where I can finally find

my Neverland?

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About the Creator

Jesse Lee

Poems and essays about faith, failure, love, and whatever’s still twitching after the dust settles. Dark humor, emotional shrapnel, occasional clarity, always painfully honest.

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  • Rowan Finley 9 days ago

    This is so whimsical and nostalgic! 👏🏻

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