Split in Two

My heart is split in two
One half lives as ever a child
wide eyed, impatient, lovingly kind
eger to dream of pirates and daisies
dreaming lazily away with the clouds
the other lives in the future
a dark place where grown-ups live
where the foolishness of a child
quivers and dies like a rose covered in frost
where such things as planning
work, money, and worries abound.

My heart is split in two
one half lives in the house of a child
the other in the world filled with cares
one wishes that things would never change
the other changes quickly and forgets
one like the springtime full of wonder.
one like the fall, growing ever colder.
yet together they dream, together wish
of a place not of this world, no
rather of a world to which my soul

Belongs.

So my heart wishes to grow older
yet can not relinquish its childish wizdom
my soul longs for something far greater
longs for completion, longs for love
for I am not of this world
So for now I am split in two.