#playtime's over

I'm WAY more grown up than you are!

Because one day, it's all gonna end. You'll lose your parents. You'll lose your friends. And if you don't already know that's gonna happen, it'll hurt you like nothing ever has.

Why go after somebody who's trying to enjoy life while she still can?

Are you really that empty inside?

Does it make you feel better to look down on somebody you think is a kid 'cause you still feel like one on the inside, and you're s'posed to be "over it"?

Are you bullying me 'cause you wish you could still play games and eat yummies, but instead you're stuck in the boring adult world where you do nothing but work, work, work until you either grow old and grey or keel over and die?

Or are you my age, or younger, and you still think you want to be an adult before you're ready?

River:  So little human says, "Playtime's over so you have to go back in your cage," and I said, "No, I don't think I will."

|playtime’s over|

halloween approche à grand pas, alors j’ai eu cette soudaine envie de faire un truc bizarre

and i still have that image of you,

swimming alongside the floaters in my eyes.

mud streaks on your face, wonder on mine

as you showed me around the world

with just a stick and a canvas of mud

still damp from the rain last night

and how we held on to mother’s legs so tight

when that thunder cracked and the sky fissured

but you said, "oh it's just god taking our picture"

and no reason to think why that cannot be

after all we were so remarkable and free

and he trapped in the sky, natural for him to envy and spy.

could swear we found the cure to cancer

or the residence of the jolly rancher

saved the world and ruled wise

or as pirates led plunders on the rise

to the moon and back on the trashed old scooter

it couldn't have taken more than half an hour.

memory's a mayfly captured in amber,

of the time when time didn't matter

held in a museum collection called 'Playtime's Over'

'FRAGILE DO NOT TOUCH', the admonishing note read

how can that be, how can any damage get done?

when we have jumped from trees taller than us

and still taken off with a run.

and I still have the image of the visage

on your face as you won in that race,

that you had set me up against.

no words shared just a quickening of pace

till it had turned into a full-blown race

legs thumping, your back fast receding

my fate eternal, left behind as you sped ahead

but running anyways because I was and am and will be

Why are you trying to make me sad?

I've already seen that happen before... to Grandpa Kurokage...

The Path of the Shinobi could do that any day, you know. To me, or to any of my friends...

It already got mommy and daddy... :(

Then why do you act so young???????

...*sniffle*...

Oh. People ask that a whoooole lot...

It's 'cause we all gotta grow up someday, y'know...? So you gotta play hard... while you still can...

Someday, even Minori's gotta stop having fun...

Even if it makes Grandpa Kurokage mad.

I hope he doesn't get mad... 'cause I heard him tell somebody about me once. He said he wanted me to stay just like this, forever and ever, and never lose my spirit!

I'm doing what he wanted... right?