Candy Store

In a little steel-mill town
far from others,
bears a small child,
and his most elementary dream.
The thought would circle his innocent mind;
a place to binge on little things.
Before, he would fantasize 
about opening one of his own:
In his heart, an old candy store
that stood a block from his home.
A lonely shack that suddenly died
took its once joyous place.
He would walk to the little building,
and every so often, gaze in wonder:
"I'll own my own candy store one day." 
said he.
"and make every child happy."
But, in sheer dismay,
his father absolutely refused.
"Why start something that could end so soon?"
The child pondered about that,
and never believed his father.
So, one day, 
as the child was daydreaming,
he sang a soft song to himself.
His father heard his shy little voice,
and gave the shy little boy no choice,
but to give in to his father's discipline...
The small child would indeed go far,
rise above and beyond the stars,
go as far as to forevermore,
almost forget about the candy store.
But... You know?
The dream never left him as he grew.
Although his love was the music world,
he'd still help each boy and girl,
all around this lonely earth,
and inspire a spiritual birth.
In his dreams, he frolics and plays,
in Foreverland does he stay.
The child with the dream of a candy store,
even now, still helping the earth forevermore.
Does this child sound familiar?
Do his dreams ring a bell?
My own divinity in motion...
 Don't ask me, I'll never tell...
...That will be for you to discover...

©LJ

23 August and 27 August 2012