Truth

I Remember

I remember.

I remember a time when most things were lost

Under tables, in the opening between seats in a car;

I remember when I was so young,

I thought toys were the only things you could lose.

Then I slowly grew, and now memories are seen in a different light,

One where I was free then, not knowing of things,

Things like love and sadness and life and death;

Back then, when things just were.

I remember.

I remember a time when I ran around a house with a friend,

Playing tag and laughing,

And I remember my father barbecuing as dusk fell on a spring night,

While fireflies danced around us.

And I remember how I lost that friend,

And how that night finally closed in around us

Like a curtain at the end of a show,

And then it was time to go inside.

I remember.

I remember being so happy,

I do,

And I remember; I remember.