Neverland
Is such an ironic name
Can't they hear?
Can't they think?
The land where boys never grew up
The Lost Boys
And you
Damaged
Are damaging others
You should be
Searching
When I heard
About your childhood
I knew
They were wrong
They've missed the boat
You sang
Like an angel
And the world
Stole your childhood
Hotel rooms
With older brothers
Sex
Drugs
Alcohol
Money
Chaos
And you must have been
So frightened
Lost
Pressure to sing
As the star
Locked your core self away
To keep it safe
My childhood
Was scarey too
I started my search
With a dream
Of a dark hole
From which came the sound
Of monsters
Howling
I was scared
I went to the hole
anyway
scared
of the howling
The hole was dark
And roots stuck out of the side
Like reaching fingers
I got a flashlight
And looked
It wasn't as deep
As I thought
And the roots worked as
A ladder
I climbed down
Into the hole
I found three monsters
Howling
Baby monsters
I put them in my pack
And carried them up
Into the light
They howled
I bathed them
And diapered them
And fed them
And rocked them
They howled
They didn't know what to do
When taken care of
I named them
Fear
Grief
Shame
At last they stopped howling
And sat
Warm
Wrapped in blankets
Ugly
Sullen
Lower lips thrust out
And I found a shrink
To talk about my dream
And to help heal the monsters
That I had rescued
We always have more
Work to do
But now I have a little girl
Inside me
Who came to greet me
When I had healed the monsters
Enough
She is beautiful
You won't find
The Lost Boy
That you are looking for
Outside you
He is inside
He is innocent
And beautiful
You may have to face
The monsters
Of your childhood
To reach him
Yours was worse than mine
I'm sorry
You may have to face
How much people you loved
Hurt you
Even though they loved you
I'm sorry
Find help
And rescue
The Lost Boy
And joy
Good luck.