Reality Childlike: Teen Adulthood Reality Responsibilities Poem by Terence George Craddock

reality childlike withdraws into game created illusions
reality role plays escapist fantasies character focusing forming
reality childlike defines control safe danger boundaries
in absorbing sustaining glory roles daydreams fantasies running

in victim rescue rescued help interactive control games
child imposes rules break down tear hiccup tragedies
prepares for adult world interaction conformity roles
in successive layers of killing off earlier childhood minds

teen adulthood reality responsibilities grew into our skin minds
reality is now we are here now reality is staring us in the face
now it is here now this time this place this is reality not memory
not flashback future illusions delusions daydreams definitely

consequences cause effect will implode on met lives
startlingly immediate problems are now unquestionably
valid there is no intelligence without context definitions
demanded solutions life cycle survival prosper failure equations

distraction emotion confusion
may still hand which moves...
gets things done wait we stasis
pause evaluate possibilities...


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