Reverie

There comes a moment in everyone’s mind
When you look back and see all that is past,
Reflect on memories and different times
And feel like they’re slipping out of your grasp;

Those blissful days of naive hopes and dreams,
Unknowingly creating precious
memories to last for years;
Not all that long ago it sometimes seems,
It’s almost like just yesterday
That we were standing just right here.

Often the past seems better than the now
The good ol’ days when everything was pure,
Without everything to worry about
And the novel facet still held allure;

With desperation swim against the tide,
Like aves struggling to lift, strained down
by damp wings tangled in a net;
It’s that funny feeling you get inside,
Helpless, drowning, unreal, gone
They told you that your path was set.

Perhaps this is just simply how we are,
And even the closest of echoes can feel far.

(Winter 2021)