Alas, This Is Now

I find myself wishing for times long since passed, A time when it seemed the Sun always shone. Nowadays my life, it seems overcast, All the warmth and sunshine has gone. How I yearn for those days in the hills, Away from it all, just you and I, Walking for miles, I see it still, The towering mountains, cloudless blue skies. Now here I sit, all aged and bent, All I have left are memories to trawl. Wondering where all my better years went, Oh what I would give, to relive them all. Happily though they are clear in my head, So through my past often I plough. Two different lives it seems I have led, I long for back then, but alas, this is now. Entry for That was Then This is Now Poetry Contest Sponsored by Silent One. 22/1/19. Placed 2nd.