And That Was When Part One, Part Two

And That Was When... 1. Those days were worlds unto themselves; Days Forever, The night Eternity When the truth that makes liars of us all, The knowledge of the Thing That Awaits Us All, Had not yet tainted us. You could From moment to moment Be anything, anyone you wanted Minds unconstrained We wandered freely, evolved on our own Through all the uncounted hours 2. Sunrise to sunset, All a constant flow All things aglow With potential, Nothing impossible, nothing implausible. This was the time you faintly remember Through the falling torrent of later years. Those years bury memories Until you call them back In the simplicity Of age. The dawning of life, the era of magic The crucible that mixes the elements Of what we are to be, Fires and forms the shape that is to come The sculpture awaiting within the stone we chip To reveal our true selves To ourselves.