Ed Kay Poet Rhyme

Looking Back

The age is creeping, very slow and cunning
There’s no defense or is there, canny one?
Look back, and the results are stunning
Gee, brother, show you how it’s done

Bring back flashbacks, books, summers of sunshine
Of days gone by, I’m clinging to them all
The fading colors, they are friends of mine
Few frames of time hanging on the wall

I long for yore of better TV dramas
Don’t made no more nowadays’ in Hollywood
And sweetest food, in kitchen known as “Mama’s”
From age way back I know as childhood

Can’t stand the music now, it is so weird ’n wacky
There was a beat I loved when I was teen
Where is that vinyl, I am so lucky
To have it, still, the best that’s ever been

Remember friendships, games, shyness, laughter
The girl, the crush, rejection hurtin’ pride
Brings faint smile, fifty years after
And how she has become your most precious bride

The kids have grown and house creaks mature
The movie’s on, it’s called “My own flying life”
Look back, the story has matured
And think the plot has been emotion-rife

With all these memories, imprinted, yours alone
Be shared or just kept with lock and key
Oh, silly days of corner old payphone
And huge fir tree, so short when you were three

Nostalgia, yearning, pains, glee and wonder
This wasn’t bad, hey, screw the crazy race
What’s left are miles, Earth expanse to wander
And slightly creased but still familiar face

Look back and find peace eternal
What was important once is less so, that’s the truth
Recall, re-live, remember times vernal
We all grow older hiding former youth

Look back and all regrets be perished
You made the best of toy construction set
Be left with tales, ours to be cherished
When noise is gone and middle age onset

February 7, 2026

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