In Fields Of Shrimmering Gold

In fields of shimmering gold
We would play,
Our hearts and minds
Gone from reality
We would be only in a dream world.
We would ride a Pegasus
With wings of gold,
Or we would be healed
By a unicorns magic.
We would dance with an elf
Or sing with a fairy,
We would run and laugh
And no one could tell us
To stop.
When it grew dark
We would join in the parties
Of the princess,
And she would sing.
We would too,
A song of forever happiness.
But soon
We would be snapped back to reality,
And brought inside
For dinner.
But those years lasted only as long as young childhood.
Soon
We did not speak of our magical land,
Our talk was of makeup,
And boys,
And the small things in life.
Soon
We stopped dreaming,
Our minds were forever pulled away
From eternal happiness.
Soon
 We entered high school,
And we did not even think
A minor thought of the past.
Only what lay ahead mattered,
Our future was only in our heads.
Not even the present mattered!
Before we knew it,
We were going off to college
We would be separated
One day.
We were going through some of our old things
When we found
Pictures of our magical place.
At first
We laughed
To think we were ever so childish!
Then
We went outside,
And we once again
Entered our fields of shimmering gold.
Our princess welcomed us
For one day,
The present and
The future,
Were forgotten.
We played like
Children,
But most things come to an end
And so did that day.
We bid farewell
To our friends.
But then
Our fairy friend said,
“No matter how old you are,
Never stop dreaming!”
To this day
I’ve never forgotten those words.
And you and I,
My best friend,
Now grandmothers,
Still return to our fields
Of shimmering gold.
And if we are not there,
We are telling our grand children
Our fairy friends words,
“No matter how old you are,
Never stop dreaming!”
To my dying day
I will always return
To our fields of shimmering gold.
And one day
I will enter my fields,
And stay there,
For eternity.


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