Less A Day Ago

( a double Sonnet )    
 
There is no telling if I’ve really grown,    
And parted ways with sentiment of trust.    
The first day certainly when I left home    
To forge ahead my future in its thrust.    
   
You followed me my little sister self,    
And tried to match my pace w’ ev’ry step.    
To tag along my sprite my faerie elf,    
Our memo’ries of time you safely kept.    
   
Those first uncertain years I never flinch’d,    
For my unfailing courage came w’ youth.    
Towards priv’leged immortality I inch’d,    
You held your tongue & kept me from the truth.    
   
In hindsight should my age help me to know,    
For I was younger, less a day ago.    
   
The opportunities I could not see    
In spite a closer distance I was brought,    
With reckless choices often taking me    
Away from lessons you & I were taught.    
   
My little self, how could I’ve been so dense?    
In lessons of the heart I must have skipped.    
God pass’d the hat to give me common sense,    
But it was lost in transit when they shipped.    
   
The goodness that is you I thought was me;    
I got it wrong for us to be abused.    
Because you stayed so close so silently,    
I thought you’d gone I selfishly assumed.    
   
It looks like I am you and didn’t know,    
For I was younger, less a day ago.    
   
   
   
         
NaPo/GloPoWriMo 2018