Way Back When
‘Way Back When
I often wish for days of old and things I learned from stories told
when old folks sat around the room and swept their minds with memory’s broom,
and told of ‘way back when.
The work was harder in those days. They didn’t have our modern ways,
but still they found the time to see what friends’ and neighbors’ needs might be,
in days of ‘way back when.
Men respected womanhood, and it was always understood,
that while men were the household’s head, ‘twas womanhood that truly led
in homes of ‘way back when.
Chivalry was ’live and well. It’s something now that we just tell
each other that it seems it died, and no one knows the reason why
it’s not like ‘way back when.
We lost a lot when those days passed, a way of life that did not last,
a time of graciousness and style (that’s now considered not worthwhile)
like days of ‘way back when.
I heard as they “remembered when” and told of how things were back then.
I wished that time could change somehow and make those old days happen now,
the days of ‘way back when.
Copyright © Yvonne Uzzell | Year Posted 2016
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