I

Wonder if

I have ever

Grown out of childhood

For as a school leader

I was once told by a

Student that I was a grown man

But a man with the mind of a child.

And

I took

That as a

Compliment because I always

Told students they should never

Lose their imagination and the creativity

Resident in each one of them as youth.

I

Told them

That a ruination

For so many adults

Is the loss of imagination

Without which they stultify and stagnate.

And

That is

Best put off

For as long as

It can possibly be stayed.

So maybe for me that growing

Up is still to happen in future.