Saturday, September 01, 2007
♠
Remember when you had been my muse,
Featured in my fairytale,
And I framed your smile in a moment,
Conversations memorised frontwards, back.
So now why does it feel like I am the one in control?
The wildest thing I have done in Primary School is climb into the school bookdrop. It was an action instigated by overwhelming responsibility on our part. The library door was locked and our teacher required something from within. I suppose our frantic brains could not have theorized the existence of a key which might have settled our dilemma, but the only viable option we could see then was to crawl into the bookdrop to access the library.
To a twelve year old, it was ingenious. Our in-school adventures were limited to prefectorial duty evasions and skeetering down staircase railings with the agility of a hunched sloth. Mind you, we were convinced that we were progressively becoming pre-teen delinquents. Not that it did stop us, the thrill of doing something remotely out of boundaries held a new dimension for us - a dimension we wanted to thoroughly explore before we left the school only with half-hearted memories of shuttered giggles and placid eleven-year old gossip(him and her, her and him).
The school bookdrop was new. It opened into a cupboard which respectively opened into the library. It was a new installation and while students might have appreciated the convenience, I am sure no one thought of using it as an alternate entrance to the library. Uh, most preferred the door. Ten minutes of flailing arms and conspicuously protruding legs, we made it in.
I do want to return to those years. Wishful thinking, on my part but I want to pretend I do not have life waiting at the threshold to swallow me whole and spit me out. I want to embrace a fantasy riddled with delusions, but growing up has presented me with a whirlwind of experiences and lessons. I think forsaking my naïve fantasy is worth all that.
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