The Year I Gave Up Childish Things
At the age of sixty-eight,
I’ve no wish to equivocate.
Is there a time when childhood ends?
When we give up playful friends?
Cease to lie in grass and dream?
Drink our coffee without cream?
Always do what’s reasonable
in order to avoid life’s trouble?
Say no to candy and dessert?
Cease to giggle, joke and flirt?
If so, I can’t remember mine.
Perhaps when I am sixty-nine!
The prompt: Write about a defining moment in your life when you were forced to grow up in an instant (or a series of instants).https://dailypost.wordpress.com/dp_prompt/when-childhood-ends/
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Yes that is so true.
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Indeed. Never give it up, ever…ever.
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Never say never, save this time.
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As soon as I figure out what I’m going to be when I grow up … any day now.
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I detected a certain childish quality.
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Lovely poem, and I hope you never have to give up those things, Judy! 🙂
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Actually I just stopped using milk in my coffee this week. Yolanda was stunned! Don’t know what I’ll do with the case of lactose free nonfat milk I bought a few weeks ago. Someone once asked me, “If there’s no lactose in it and no fat, what is it? Is it still milk? Ha.
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I too have given up milk in tea and coffee, but I do use milk for cooking occasionally!
I, too, wonder what is in your ‘milk’!
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Yes, me, too. I used to use soy milk and still do in my smoothies, but there has been so much written about the GMO’s in soy milk.
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Well, I just had a bowl of ice cream with chocolate sauce to make up for your lack of excess. I will soldier on alone, I guess.
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Last I heard you were the good soldier and I was the bad one. Now we’ve switched roles???
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Judy, you couldn’t grow out of your childhood enjoyments unless you wanted to, and I cannot imagine that ever happening! 🙂
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Ha. never! 😃
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