Seems Like Yesterday-Mystic

I sat this morning by the sea,
just some seagulls in my company,
as I stared into the blue infinity.
Once, I would swim and splash and ride
the waves with sea nymphs and nereids.
Now, I can only watch the spray,
but it seems like yesterday.

In those days, though I was small
I could hit a curve or a fastball 
in a beautiful arc over the wall.
Once, it sailed beyond the grass
and broke the neighbor's window glass.
Oh, how we would run and play,
on the fields of yesterday.

Like every youth, I soon grew,
and discovered something new,
her laughing eyes I would pursue.
Once, there was a first.
I thought my heart would burst.
Oh, to feel that way today,
ah, but that was yesterday.

As life's repeating cycles spun,
and what had ended had again begun, 
I would have a healthy son. 
Once, he saw his first butterfly in awe,
and now he practices the law, 
while I am old and grey,
as I long for yesterday.

In a hundred years, in the early dawn,
another man will stare upon 
the sea, but we will all be gone.
Once, when the future is like the past, 
and precious life, folks hold onto fast, 
all new people will say,
"It seems like yesterday."

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