Shattered Illusions

The world is round they said as I had not yet gone around the block alone and without my mothers hand. Gravity is what keeps you safely planted here when I had not ever wondered about it quite frankly. I was on more important things such as why I could not run fast enough to catch the butterfly. They do not fly that fast and when I ran in my backyard in my canvas high tops with my Henry Raddigan homemade butterfly catcher IV model I felt like I flew.

The light of the stars are light years away they said when I did not understand that the nightly news was being broadcast from halfway around the world. I was not yet old enough to walk to the candy store alone. I thought of these things not in front of a virtual encylopedia full of wonder and glorious mistakes as well. I pondered astronomical units climbing trees. I wondered about the stars when I camped out at night. I thought about life forms when I dug for worms or went fishing.

I begans to see the effects of gravity and this greater knowledge they wanted me to learn when I began to see I was failing chemistry and going to dances alone. The dating years. Surely there were strangers among us and they were beautiful.

I wonder how it feels today. Hand me downs, we all had them. The name brand was what was bought at the local store to keep your best friends dad in bussiness. Family night was not strange, other families did it. We had game night and Fondu night at our house and played Uno and Monopoly. So gravity is what is keeping us here. So what keeps you tied to your own backyard?

ASH

P.S.

The Henry Raddigan IV Butterfly cartcher was a homemade product that was quickly replaced. Due to several testings the product was quickly discontinued.