When We Were Young
I remember you from when we were young
We never paid much mind
To the mingling of our eyes
We never said goodbyes
To the moments we'd find
We weren't much more than strangers
You, with your boys to lead
Me, with an oppressor to oppose
How conversely our trees rose
How distant our sown seeds
You have all but forgotten the way we never were
The way we never kissed
The way we never loved
Rightly, she flew free, that dove
Rightly, that train was missed
But, here I’ve found you in the present sun
Your curls still yellow-gold
Like I recall them to be
There, under a willow tree
In passing of stories told
I can feel how you're wondering so quietly
Not so different you and I
As ages have come to pass
Steeped in fields of grass
Under the same empty sky
Worlds apart have ways of closing distance
Everything changes by and by
When entrusted to Father Time,
Perhaps words can learn to rhyme
Perhaps our collision grows nigh
Copyright © Andy Ellsworth | Year Posted 2013
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