Once We Were Young

 It's that 'back-to-school-away-at-school' heart tug and hug setting in...

then I read today's YDP and let thought's hunger lead.

Didn't I just say Happy Augu...oh, never mind!
Happy September, all!;-)

In Time we all become part of a cast

Wrapping our arms around pictures of Past

Wondering at the sheer pace of life’s grind

Pondering whispers of days left behind

Time’s temperament leaves no room for repeat

Nor ever ushers same noon to its street

Dreams once prized dearly are lost or exchanged

Minds that saw clearly must be rearranged

Slowly, those pieces we thought ought to fit

Need to be revised or jiggled a bit

Strange, what the middle of night can recall

Maybe our parents were right after all

With a start, hearts realize time is small

Echoes resound where its new children call

Soft on the twilight, with yesterday’s year

Trembles the black-white of Back When and Here

Silk-soft, each rise and set of dust and dew

Begets a vista, oh my, what a view

Who knew that Time drew its shadows so fast?

Ah yes, they who found themselves part of This Cast

Once we were young, full of song, free of care

Certain that life was a long-strung affair

Now we fill doorways and wave from afar

To dreamland-foragers reaching for stars

© Janet Martin