It really seems like Collins is trying to explain his saddness about the coming of age. As a child I was so excited to have a Birthday and turn a year older, because I felt like I was getting more responcibily. He seemed to see growing up as a sad thing. For example he says, that the sun was solumly fall against his house, but that it didn't when he was younger. It seems to me like he is trying to explain that he used to see the sun falling on his tree house like a sign that a great day was over and that a new wonderful day would start again tomorrow. Now it seems like he is saying that the day finally ended and that he wasn't looking forward to the next day. I understand how he could say that he looses so many things, like imaginary friends, but I feel like as children get older they gain so much.
When Collins talks about all of the things he believed as a ignorant little child it seems like he is longing to be back at that time. He says that he felt like only yesterday he had thought that there was light under his skin and it seems to me that he is longing for have light under his skin and have a carefree world instead of the broken life he has. He seems to be saying that at the age of 10 ingnorance stops and lifes problems are dropped on your lap.
This poem effectivly shows a coming of age and the saddness and happiness of growing up. It explains the saddness a person could have that they are loosing the experiences of a carefree childhood, but I also feel like it is a comparison to the things that can occur in adulthood. I really think he has a negative attitude about growing up and that he is not looking at how much he has gained, only what he has lost.
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