Peter Pan Outside The Window

Look! It’s Peter!

For a moment, the name feels like mockery.

For a moment, I thought I had joined them.

But in just a moment, I am only looking on.

The family inside embracing,

My boys already forgetting how to fly.

 

Second star to the right, cold and far away.

But as I near home, the morning softens my wrinkles

And by the time I get there they’ll have disappeared.

It is so easy to be carefree, to be careless.

Just not now, looking in from

Outside the window.

 

© jsmorgane (Jan 2016)