THE JAR by Becky Hemsley

"THE JAR"
by Becky Hemsley 2020

There was a little dreamer

Who, from just the age of three

Spent all his time imagining

What he could do and be

He wanted to invent things

Give the world something brand new

He wanted to change lives

Even if he only changed a few

His wild imagination

Was like a jar without a lid

And they nurtured and encouraged it

Whilst he was still a kid

But as he grew and his dreams

Showed no signs that they would slow

They tried to tame them, rein them in

And screw the jar lid closed

They told him he should think

More realistically instead

Yet, almost everything that’s real

Was once thought up in someone’s head

If everyone stopped dreaming

We’d be stuck right where we are

But they tell us that, as adults

We must live inside the jar

So he parked his dreams up in the clouds

Said he’d return some day

But his dreams grew all redundant

As his life got in the way

Yes, the dreamer stopped his dreaming

And they were all left wondering why

Well, they said the sky’s the limit

Then put a ceiling on the sky

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Becky Hemsley 2020

Artwork by KEITH Proctor

‘The Jar’ is from Talking to the Wild: https://a.co/d/i2AbFVS

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