Thing: Memories

Remember

I can picture it now; Faces are different now.

Funny how things change when you look in a crowd.

Retrospective visions once picture perfect are now distorted.

Quite nostalgic...but it’s time to paint another portrait.

Images of past and present blend with vivid colors.

Haters, lovers, sisters, brothers, babies, dads, and mothers.

Wildest dreams captured in the still frames of a photo.

Lights flash before your eyes. The moments move in slow-mo.

Ringing around the rosy running red rover right over.

Living to be an astronaut in outerspace when I got older.

Chasing the girls getting sent straight to the principal.

Telling all the kids at school my grandpa was invisible.

Playing tackle football at the park in elementary.

Counting “One Mississippi, two, Mississippi three!"

I’m seeing differently. A few more mysteries.

Sipping on soda pops. Now sipping Hennessy.

No turning back even though I wish I could

Reverse the hands of time and relive a 2^nd childhood

If life could be that easy, I’d raise my hand and do it again.

Know where you’re headed and remember where you’ve been.

One Moment

Finally, I've reached the coming of age. Seems nothing has changed,

but times are ticking, now I've got something to say.

‘87 is long gone, but never forget tradition

Or Lola in the kitchen killing the children’s nutrition.

Cookies and fatty foods. No, I ain’t mad at you.

I hope you always knew there could never be a substitute.

You are the world to me, from now until the end.

Moments of life, we should do it again.

Do it again. I wanna live to one hundred and ten.

Cousins and friends always made it fun to pretend

To be a hero with superpowers, the hours just flew by

Cartoons on Saturdays and swimming in July.

In due time our lives transcend beyond the pains

Good times remain, I’ll promise to keep all of your names. 

If life could be that easy, I’d raise my hand and do it again.

Know where you’re headed and remember where you’ve been.