Elegy To Imagination Poem by mollie myers

It seems it was just yesterday
When a tree
Was not a tree
Trees were in fact
Giants

Was it really that long ago
When my daddy
Was not only a daddy
But a superhero
A knight in shining armor
And a horse, all in one day

And boxes
Oh how wonderful they were
They were cars
And houses and trains
And beds and so much more

But now,
A tree is a tree
My dad is a dad
And a box
Sadly
Is a box

Where hath this imagination gone?
When did it disappear?
I'm not completely sure
Somewhere between childhood
And the present

But I have a passport
Back to the imagination
Of my childhood

When it gets dark
And the walls close in
At least my jacket
Is not a jacket
For a split second
It is a monster

But after a split second
I run out of time
And I am back
To the reality
That jackets are jackets
And boxes are boxes
Oh, how i miss
When boxes were train