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.
Copyright © William Masonis | Year Posted 2021
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