gay old times

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youth

is a brain that thinks little

and feels a lot.

it knows how to enjoy holidays

because it doesn't know.

nothing tells it "you can't

be silly and dreamy and Young".

nothing tells it grow up

because time makes no apologies.


it's a crowned age

golden

good

gay

sought after once it's lost

like a warm little ray

of a sun that has set.


the senile tell us

enjoy till you can

yet a young brain thinks nothing

of the future day

except for getting upset it can't drink, drive, nor swear.


soon

too soon, really

fun turns serious

loses its fluff

one starts trying to win

and forgets to have fun

the road becomes bumpy

each day feels like a brawl

a crown is the value of the game now

not the game the value of the crown.

shiny distractions stay in one's hands for long days, collecting dust

and one stares at them with pride

for owning pieces of pyrite

fool's gold

empty inside


it just shines

like plastic that pretends to be water


you watch the gay have fun

you watch life bubbling jolly

and it feels like a precious memory

that you wish was more than that.

the good gold gay old days

still exist in your withered soul

it's all that teaching and molding

that's made life taste foul.

despondency binds your wings

once free they were, yet small

now they've grown big - with you -

but how to answer the call?


of that bubbly jolly spirit

that fell asleep, withered, in thrall.


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