Remembering

Remember when life didn’t feel like a    
task  
When it didn’t feel like a never ending    
chore    
When the days were enjoyed and not  
dreaded    
When no worries crept in your soul    
   
Do you remember your childhood home and playing in the yard    
Do you remember staying out exploring until the peak of dusk  
Illuminating our fort with the fireflies that we
caught
climbing high light of heavy fear  
   
Maybe it is I  
Or maybe it’s my age    
Or maybe this strange society    
Has crumbled and decayed    
   
Maybe it’s the shallow    
Or the lack of depth    
The fragile more expensive things  
That create in us compliancy    
   
Remembering seems far away    
Perhaps from my aphantasia    
I found my love    
And with him came new    
daydreams of our future    
Yet still I remember enough    
To now know that it’s harder to have them