"Finding Neverland by Jöseph Lee Foster-Shumpert-Lear, 2005
Published 26 March 2005 :: Poetry
Inspired by the movie staring Johnny Depp
For every laugh
First borne to life
When a child is born
A fairy unto us is created
To watch over thee
To guide thee
And see us through
Thine darkest hour
For every word
Borne by hate
A heart within
The world falls to darkness
Tumbling out of sight
As well as mind
No neverland it will find
No peace
No certainty
For all innocence
Is lost
For every smile
Worne warmly upon thine face
A rose upon the world
Will grow
Giving beauty
And grace
Drawing close
The lovers
The romancers
And my mind
For every hand held
Every kiss lain
I will be thine witness
For within that world
I may not be
Fore neverland
Will not have me
For every dream
Built on imagineation
Borne to life
By the mind of a child
And for the happiest of thoughts
Which may bare thee to flight
I shall be there to hold thee
To catch thee
When yee shall fall
For nothing
Not youth
Not love
Nor thine happiness
Ever lasts
Forever…
Neverland afar
Where hath thee fled
To close thine door
To mine face
Where shalt I find thee
So as to enter
And once gain mine youth
Mine wings
For this peter has need of thee
Has need of thineshelter
Has need of thine innocence
Fore mine has lost
Its luster and glow
Neverland afar
Wherein shalt I find thee
Wherein shalt I look
Fore mine heart has fled me
And left me within the cold
Once a man told me that
For every laugh
First borne to life
When a child is born
A fairy unto us is created
To watch over thee
To guide thee
And see us through
Thine darkest hour
But he left out the part
That finding neverland
Was an impossibility
Now lain me to sleep
In hopes that happiness
Unto me now
Will meet
That place so long sought
And never found
For now I know
That nothing
Not youth
Not love
Nor thine happiness
Ever lasts
So this I feel
As mine eyes I close
Hoping for peace
Feeling without
Wondouring why
It all cannot be
Forever…
