It Was Only Yesterday
It Was Only Yesterday
By Elton Camp
Because the past they can’t recall, some fret
But it can also be bad to be unable to forget
Yet, I don’t know which situation is the worst
Remembering details can be considered cursed
I can bring back my life from under a year old
And they are genuine, not things I’ve been told
With the greatest of ease I can quite readily think
When I was in a walker & from a bottle did drink
I can see and hear my family who are now gone
And, sadly, there still remains just me alone
Our ancestral home, long ago fallen into decay
Vines choke the grounds where I used to play
Each pet that I extended my love and trust
Has, decades ago, disappeared into dust
Teachers whose faces & voices I can revive
Not a single one of them still remains alive
Even the school buildings I thought so grand
Now are empty and many no longer stand
Cars, that to clean a polish, I worked so hard
At best, now decay in some rusty junkyard
But all it I can visit any time that I please
Distressing can be memories such as these
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