Billionare of Youth

Once there was a boy
So full of joy
On top of it all
He ran wild and free
A dragon was slain before breakfast
A princess would attend for tea
The world could be taken
And time needed no appointment
His sinews were supple
And beautiful to behold
In his eyes shown the Universe
Birds spoke volumes of poetry
As they flew through the sky of his heart
Love was breath itself
And no hand could arrest his soul
I remember when a blue sky revealed
What kind of beasts played there
In the churning pillowed plumes
And rolling over to release
A blast of steady stream
Meant scattering the Dandy-lion's
Universe of stars

Time marched in the Foreign Legion
And it's rifle salute did not
Trifle with the Robin's call
Nor could it blot out
The red of the Cardinal
Each breath of air was
Sweet like Honey
With my breast the comb
When love and buttercups provided
Equal sensations of vibrant sun
The breeze played the strings upon my head
And caressed my neck and cheek
With a question for a slide
I played the seesawed game of childhood
And climbed each green apple tree
To a pirate captain's treasure
As Robinhood I snatched the black ripened grapes
Of neighboring vines and lustily consumed
The candied pleasures beneath their dusty coats
And a dance sprung from my legs
The the song of the moment
Be off to every kind of game
And to every kind of friend

He was a billionaire of youth
A prince in foreign lands
No one spoke a word that
That he sought to understand
Playing at what is learned
Taking what was free
Damming what is earned
That Caesar looked with pride upon his empire
Nero fiddled as it burned
The pain caused the boy to leave
Upon returning he and the
Kingdom were no longer the same
His joy was robbed, plundered and gone
He needed to get away more often
On ever increasing journeys in search of joy
He lived in and through others
He traveled through the substances
And floated freely high upon entertainment

The boy swam in projects,
Goals and reams of schemes
The future became the present
The past followed in dreams
But much of the now was forever lost
The empire now destroyed
And no one comes to call
There are none fascinated to listen
While shadows grow ever tall
Now moonlight's entranced dances
Cause the grey sands to glisten
Dimly recalling fortunes now spent
The glory of what was, now lies bleeding
The green estates have been exchanged
For a desert's expanse of rainbow scatterings
And this shell of a wind-tattered dusty tent.