The Sandbox

As if it were the air, past the corner turning,
We bend as lifes' flowing moments go,
Age deep within the heart of memory burning,
With all we see and all we know.

Look!  There's the youth we cherished so,
Up from behind, steady, slow,
Memory  pursues us as   a spiders' prey  is caught.

Oh, the blue that arched above our heads,
As the sun beat down from above,
Our  eyes reflecting azure skys,  hearts ablaze with love;
We would play, in the sandbox, joyful without dreads.

All too soon the days grew cold,
Our friends dissapeared, shadows fell, we grew old.
Vanished now the place we'd play,  all  things seem to fade away,
Lost in  times' embrace, the sandbox, the children and the day.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2007

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