Wild Ponies

I remember days of innocent spent
Riding wild ponies
Dancing in tall grass
Watching clouds pass by
Star filled nights
And hot summer days
Eating watermelon
And swimming in cold creeks
Looking for arrowheads
And going on treasure hunts
But like the time things change
seasons go by and Autumn turns to
Winter and Winter to Spring
Then I didn’t know
Wild ponies could kill
Tall grass hid snakes
Watching clouds was useless, and
Eating watermelon was messy
Swimming in creeks was dangerous
Arrowheads were hard to find
And there was never anything at the end of the rainbow
But somehow I wish they would have never told me