I heard this term only a few years ago and fell in love with it. That's how I always felt - a child trapped in the body of an adult and people were always saying to me - You're too old for that! How frustrating!

Being An Adult Child

I often appear so immature
I act in childish ways
For even though my body aged
My mind stuck in younger days

When I was just a little girl
About the age of eight
I felt I had to be mature
My childhod had to wait

So much repsonsibility
So strong I had to be
No opportunity was there
To be playful or carefree!

The years passed by eventually
I did what was required
And then one day I realized
That all I felt was very tired!

I look like I'm an Adult
Who has managed to survive
But inside I'm just a child
Who needs to feel alive!

So many things left unresolved
The questions and the fears,
The hidden feelings that I dread
Even after 50 years!

The world I knew has ended
A new mission's drawing near
If I can heal the little "Me"
Sounds of happiness I will hear!

Though no one really understands
"You've got it made," they say!
"To pick and choose what ever you want.
You can have it your own way!"

How I wish it were so easy!
I'M NOT USED TO BEING BOSS!
I need to have a purpose!
Without guidance I am lost!

For the first time someone's asked
"What do YOU want to do?"
I answer, "How should I know?
For me this is so new!"

You must investigate your passions
Allow all past hurts to heal
Create a bond with Spirit
It's time that you felt real!

Just focus on your feelings
Let experience help you grow
With lots of love and patience
Soon your true path you will know!

It's not like in the movies
Blink your eyes and you are whole!
It's a long and tedious journey
Repairing the injuries to my soul!



Love gives us strength to endure and to heal!
L O V E to all of you
Pam

You have such a wonderful ability to sum up massive internal restructuring in simple language... As someone who has been a part of your journey, I am very proud of the way you can see to the heart of your struggles and then relate them to us as a complete circle sort of... And the very writing of all the steps along the way is therapuetic for you, and for all the others who read your work.

We all feel like a child stuck in an adult world at one time or other; I can't imagine feeling that way every day, and have to say that you've coped very well with the adult world under your inner circumstances!

Your work is excellent, Pam! Keep it up!!!

Love and Big Hugs,

Alice

I assume Pam, you have particularly good cause for you circumstances, so I can only generalise. To reiterate what Alice said, we all retain a child within us. I think all of us without exception feel vulnerable, defenceless and pretty much afraid. The cloak of bravado is suited to some more than others and a swaggering gait is maybe a genetis trait. We are all born with human frailty. We are also born with an inner human strength and it is this that we seek. When we think we have found it, we must never let it out of our grasp, we must embrace and nurture it and then I'm sure it grows with us. And this strength, I believe, is a Heavenly tool that can and does yield surprising results .........