Another Place, Another Time

A small child sat and watched the rain nose pressed hard 'gainst window pane mind mulling, musing, pondering wistful, wishing, wandering filled with fantasies, far off places cities, forests, wide-open spaces Formative years yearning reading, imagining, learning prospective possibilities alluring locations overseas- But grown-up responsibilities forced a shifting of priorities and nose stayed pressed against the glass settled and still, as life went past An old man sat and watched the rain nose pressed hard 'gainst window pane dreaming about what 'might have been' wishes blow by in Winter's wind like scuttling leaves, used up and dry silent sorrow in pensive sighs