Days of Old

Days Of Old 

Morning breeze, the summer skies 

Starry nights and county fairs 

Birds in trees and on the lines 

Coins we’ve tossed and running scared 

The child within I cannot find 

If love’s not here then I am lost 

The wayward winds I’ve left behind 

The end is near, the paths we’ve crossed 

From beneath my cave I’ve seen the light 

Outside the heart where life begins 

The words I’ve saved to win the fight 

A spark that starts the fire within 

A breath that breathes the gift of life 

The clouds that shade the feelings blue 

A death that bleeds the sacrifice 

The colors fade, that once were you 

An offering that life no longer shares 

The days of old and festive times 

A style of peace the season wears 

The memories wrinkled in paper rhymes 

In winter frost I was the snow 

That you have made into a man 

Come new spring the seed would grow 

And bloom like warmth of summer wind 

They were the days of old and true 

They are the ways we learn to live 

They drift like waves from oceans blue 

Then pass like memories, through a sieve 

Michael 3/21/2021
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Gondolf Avatar
March 24, 2021 at 6:28 AM
Michael, this has such a nice flow to it, I really enjoyed the read. The older I get the more I tend to reminisce, I can relate to this verse. Nicely penned. John
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