Prolix

Of speech or writing, using or containing too many words; tediously lengthy.

The rosy cheeked, cherubic, innocent, slight, fragile, standing for all that’s incorruptible child

The child

slowly and quietly, stealthily, as a metaphor for freedom, noisily, violently opened

opened

the big, red, wooden, imposing, metal, standing for opportunities, standing for barriers, panelled door

the door

to the crazy, tumbling, lawless, vast, incomprehensible, welcoming, frightening chaos

to the chaos

of the unknowable, paradoxical, cruel, loving, sympathetic, hopeless, hopeful world.

of the world.

“It’s so amazingly, awesomely, truly, impossibly, hugely, honestly beautiful”,

"It's so beautiful",

he viciously, whisperingly, loudly, pleadingly, haughtily, softly, imploringly, harshly, threateningly said.

he said.

No.

Keep it simple.  Keep it straight.

Cut the words.

Snip, snip, snip.

Say what you mean.

The child opened the door to the chaos of the world.  “It’s so beautiful”, he said.