Innocence

An old picture album sits on my desk

I’m not sure what has brought me to this

As I flip through pages I start to reminisce

Thinking about what it’d be like

To be young and innocent again.

I’d give anything to be that age

When my biggest concern was

What color bow to wear with my dress,

And I still had my innocence.

I walk through town

and I pass by that place.

Why’d I let you take it all away?

I never thought I’d become that way.

Why can’t I go back to the time

Where all I worried about

Was who stole my crayons?

And there, in that time, I still had my innocence.

But I’m looking towards the future,

with all I have left.

And even if someday our paths were to cross,

I’d smile to myself and laugh it all off.

Because, yes, I gave myself to you;

But people make stupid mistakes

And you were my biggest one.

Julianna May