humanity's wisdom is childishness

humanity's wisdom is childishness
and no matter what, you have to embrace it.
(or you stand to lose your humanity, wisdom, and children)
not childishness in the sense that my parents use it,
but childishness in the sense of child-like wonder
at every new experience, and unabateable love for
humanity and the world in which it lives.  there will always be a new
experience if you are open to find it.
if you should find your senses dulled, hold on
to what you learned in kindergarten.

take time to speak in rhymes,
exchange
pleasantries in a garden filled with pleasant
trees, no sleaze, just bees and birds
and hand-holding. 

make sure there is time for sleaze, though,
down on your knees, know what it is like to explore
someone like a foreign city.

keep interested in others and their origins,
make sure you're never sure where the journey begins.
just be true enough to yourself to follow it to its end,
whoever that may be, wherever that me.

i recently kissed a boy who had never kissed a boy,
and now i imagine he stands on a precipice of hidden feeling
and i am there to catch him if he jumps,
trampoline, pillows, and hot chocolate waiting,
but if he doesn't, i've just dug myself a little grave.

but i'll get back up, i always do, and when i rise,
earth-scented and moist, i am ready to re-enter the world,
to take each new mystery as it comes, and to expose myself
to the massive amount of knowledge that there is,
because if one thing is more stimulating to me than innuendo,
it's learning. it's humanity.
it's humanism and rubik's cubes and solving problems
and making things better and doing the best that i can.
being a child and not forgetting to play.