The Years Apart Are Nothing

On the steps of Congress St or somewhere college town We talked about how smart we were and world domination And laughed Ciccadas sung I was indignant over stuff that seems minimal now And our common friend wasn't our friend In a world before Facebook people went in and out of lives The natural order of things On the steps we thought Californication was truth Codeine dreams before booze and abstinence The times when I studied rational thought Came before rational thought became the answer The time before the time in between was full of life. We the had the fight of youth And though neither of us thought of family that's what we have The smell of smoke and damp seemed old We knew better Looking back we knew nothing Mistakes and instinct taught us life and where to go On the steps I embraced the spirit of youth And old I know it's to love but not to hold