Poem: Stifling

A heartfelt want slips
from a young child's grasp
Left him crying
Wrenched in soul and heart
Perhaps it was too much
for him to ask
For a want, in dreams
so surely cast

He holds the fragments dear in his palms
As his tear dried up and hardened
But urges from a headstrong guardian
expels hims back to mundane convention

--> Location unknown, 15th September 1995

A portrayal of society's (the 'guardian') stiflement of human desires, even to disallow one to grieve or mourn 'inappropriately'.