Remember When
Remember when we could still stand
To gaze upon some virgin land
Appreciate the beauties of the Earth?
Remember when the flowers bloomed in May,
How we lived, day to day
When little things still had intrinsic worth?
Remember when there were no fears out there beyond the fence?
Remember when we still had common sense?
But now it seems so far away
Though it happened only yesterday
The tremor's still a-shaking in my heart.
And now there's just a stoneage silence
Born of but a moment's violence
Standing sentry in a landscape torn apart.
The heat came down like a mountain falling in the sea
The sky lit up like a thousand suns
Ten million souls cried in agony
Hung in the air, then faded out as one.
Sorry, don't like to steal your sleep, my dears
Didn't mean to probe your deepest, darkest fears.
But I keep having this terrible dream, you see
You can't imagine how it makes me feel
When I wake, draw close to me
Tell me, was it really real?
Remember when things didn't seem
So pointless so gone extreme
That we could let the children play outside?
Remember when the Grand Alliance
Worked so hard for world compliance
Yet how they finally made us go and hide?
Remember when the world that was
Was still a place for having dreams
How strange the thought of that now seems.
But now it seems so long ago
A million miles from what we know
The Final Crime committed now at last.
So now it's all a weary show
As on and on and on we go
Our living time is now - the Past's the Past.
Copyright © William Masonis | Year Posted 2012
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