dust untouched

I Remember

I remember how I'd be cradled

until stories would carry me to sleep.

But now it's all my thoughts

that keep me up as I weep.

I remember how I'd hate the rain

keeping me from running to play.

But now I am one with the rain

with all my skies fading to gray.

I remember how I would think

that the worst pain was a scrape on my knee.

But now I understand that pain 

is more than what you can only see. 

I remember how everything

seemed to be easier back then.

But now everything seems to be 

the opposite

of what I thought it would be.