I've Lost Him

i've lost him


who was amazed by the shifting faces of a chameleon
who lived life off chewed pencils, scented erasers, and a pencil box
whose happiness was in the affordable pleasures of a nickel and a dime
whose rainbow dreams were woven off cotton candies and paper wheels


i've lost him
i've lost him to the greedy pangs of an apparent adulthood
i've lost him in the detrimental desire to grow up

i've lost him in the forgotten streets i've drowned my broken sails in