Childhood Is...

Childhood is wandering miles to a gas station
            For candy we didn’t want, we needed
            Getting Airheads, even though I didn’t like them
            And turning suckers into caped heroes

Childhood is being with friends
            Riding bikes for hours, just so we didn’t have to go home
            Making up rules to made up games, so you always win
            Playing tag and losing to a tree.

Childhood is squirt gun fights that last for days
            Battling for the tree house, till it’s rightfully yours
            Calling a truce you know you will break
            And they know it too

Childhood is building traps to get your friends
            But not understanding how a trap works
            So it does nothing
            But pretending they got it anyway.

Cody Hull