Janet Bingham Poet Rhyme

Those Were the Days

THOSE WERE THE DAYS

   I can remember when I could speak to strangers
   and they'd smile and speak back with minimal dangers.

   I can remember when married people wanted babies
   and most men were gentlemen and most women ladies.

   I can remember when we didn't lock the door
   and fatherhood was special and motherhood, not a bore.

   I can remember when we took pride
   in the kind of jobs we worked at to stay alive.

    I can remember when the aged were respected,
    and loved by their families and never neglected.

    I can remember when there were better times
    and people weren't on drugs scrounging for dimes.

    I can remember when God went to school
    and children weren't ashamed to obey the Golden Rule.

    I can remember when we felt love for each other
    and drove carefully on freeways with our sisters and brothers.

    I can remember when neighbors were our friends
    and we talked to them and told them about where we'd been.

    Janet Marie Bingham

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Sand Blown December 14, 2018 at 6:27 AM brings back a couple of folk tune lines ...'we thought they'd last forever and a day'...but...'the times they are a changin' (i love dylan : )