the child mind

we are all of the child mind,

before it was taken up 

by an experience overlay.

surely there was treasure

but not in a worldly assessed way.

expectations of others 

functioned as cutting tools.

repetition became the sensory downplay.

recognition became a second language learned.

emotion had to have the particulars of intentioned.

self was a conjugation of referential standards.

one descended into a consciousness of relationals.

speech was a constant ferreting out of specifieds. 

memories had three-dimensional acts to rely upon.

there was the metronome of next moments impressing.

experience didn't have a surface to face anymore.

imbibed, implored, immersed, employed, 

as if these were the rituals 

of conscious being, taken up to mean.

we are all of the child-mind.

yet before it came to be,

as referenced to,

as that of,

the empowerment of a child's wondrous mind . . .