It Was Only Yesterday

Life's but a fleeting shadow.

It Was Only Yesterday

 

By Elton Camp

 

Because the past they can’t recall, some fret

But it can also be bad to be unable to forget

 

Yet, I don’t know which situation is the worst

Remembering details can be considered cursed

 

I can bring back my life from under a year old

And they are genuine, not things I’ve been told

 

With the greatest of ease I can quite readily think

When I was in a walker & from a bottle did drink

 

I can see and hear my family who are now gone

And, sadly, there still remains just me alone

 

Our ancestral home, long ago fallen into decay

Vines choke the grounds where I used to play

 

Each pet that I extended my love and trust

Has, decades ago, disappeared into dust

 

Teachers whose faces & voices I can revive

Not a single one of them still remains alive

 

Even the school buildings I thought so grand

Now are empty and many no longer stand

 

Cars, that to clean a polish, I worked so hard

At best, now decay in some rusty junkyard

 

But all it I can visit any time that I please

Distressing can be memories such as these

 

Reviews

[Marie]

I try not to go back to my memories; neither the happy ones or the sad ones. I don't know which are more depressing.