Once upon a time was a boy
With boundless and endless joy
A mischief maker of untold ploy
Enticing all to come and enjoy
Peter Pan has lost his joy
The treasures of childhood covered in dust
Trophies and Tonka's eaten by rust
Gone were the vices of childlike lust
Replaced by a soulless blackened crust
Peter Pan is an empty husk
Curled in fetal an old man weeps
Grieving the promises he can never keep
To offspring that time will sweep
Into endless oblivion of eternal sleep
Peter Pan lies in a heap
In screaming anguish in his bed he lay
Unable to recall what it was like to play
His once joyous heart lay flayed
Opened to life's eternal decay
Peter Pan doth fade away
Whimsical creatures of flickering light
Came streaming through my window last night
Looking for a boy of cheerful delight
Found only man of distressing spite
Peter Pan no longer takes flight
As night moves toward beauteous dawn
Creatures of mirth are bid to be gone
Toward laughter of children they'll drawn
Backs turned from withered brawn
Peter Pan is forever gone
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