Ten

The powers of ten years ago

have not diminished enough

to release me from their hold

and to let me forget or at least

allow to fade the memories

of those times.

 

I move forward, yet I still

feel my mind moving

backward, back to days

long gone and times

already lived and people

I have not seen or spoken

to for so long.

 

What another ten years

will do to those powers

that still bind me, I do

not know.  I can only

hope that they will fade

with more years and

with new experiences.

 

But for now, I will allow

the memories to continue

to sweep me away and

take me back to a time

when all seemed rich

and ripe and oh so bright,

ten years ago.