I REMEMBER

I REMEMBER

  

How often in memory have you strayed

Back to the days of old?

When life was sweet and you cherished

The tales that your Grandpa told.

When you splashed at the beach

And in rock pools stayed,

With tiny crabs and starfish

And you played with a bucket and spade?

When you sat in the grass and made daisy chains

Which you hung round your neck and wrist?

And you felt the warmth of golden days

When with sunshine you were kissed.

When each year seemed to take forever

To get back to the Festive Season.

When days were long and you had not a care

Did not question the rhyme or the reason.

Do you remember walking in leaves

And rolling around on the grass?

Just lying back and watching the sky

How quickly those days did pass.

And now as a grown up – it’s hard to recall

How life was much simpler then.

When we women were still little girls

And the boys not yet grown to be men.

So cherish each memory – hold it in store

For I am sure it will be a great part

Of the times of your life you want to recall

The times that belong in your heart.

© Linda J. Vaughan

October 29 2001