Childhood

Do You Remember!
Many years ago......

When we were sweet, How we used to stay together ? Everyday?
It seems like yesterday-
The Childhood world, of cars & candy...
And summer days, that never seemed to end...
When we roamed, from 4'o clock till dusk..
Then sat outside on someone's stoop...And listened to the music and listened to the blues..
And slapped away mosquitoes & talked about dreams...
And what we'do when we grew up, until our mothers called us in.
And do you remember, that when we made a game of raking leaves....
And the grand day when finally the training wheels came off our cars & we were free.....To explore the whole world.
In an afternoon, so long as we stayed on our own street..
But those days passed by furtively and we grew up, as people do.
Until we reached a day when we assumed that we were too grown up, to play amid the trees on summer nights....
And when I see you NOW, you have changed in ways I can't explain. Because the waist on your jeans is getting tight, symbolic of a youth that's not your own, And your face is pale- You look unwell.
I see you scowling at the street from the window in your room, its so rare to see you smiling Anymore.Staring at the empty spot as trying to carve out the figure.

Its ME..... Why Am I Like That?

-Himani