Grass Stains

Permanently stained

Shorts from a time when

Wearing stained clothing

Was acceptable because you

Didn’t have an image to keep.

After all, you were only a kid.

At the time, you didn’t care

And you couldn’t quite grasp

The definition of judgemental.

You just wanted to have fun,

And you did in those opal

Sky days when you would

Play tag and trip over your own

Feet without the embarrassment.

Then you could just lay there

On a patch of perfect green grass

And make delightful shapes and

Fairy tales out of cotton palaces

In the sky. The green grass stains

They made an impression so

You can always recall the bliss

Life can be.