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Memory: A Sestina.

I, too, yearn for that simple life, when we were nothing but happy.

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Memory: A Sestina.

Remember when we were always out in the heat,

playing beside the house in that old empty lot

where we weren’t supposed to be?

on days like that we had the most fun,

didn’t we? Where we never worried about life

and just cared about being happy?

Yeah? Well in those days we were happy.

We waited all day for the sun to ease its heat

so we could sneak outside for an evening of fun.

back then there was no better place to be,

so we always fought our way into the old lot

and savored our carefree life.


We brought so many characters to life!

‘In that place we were truly happy.

Our young bodies were filled with the heat

from all of the never-ending fun

we had being whatever we wanted to be,

when we were down in that old forbidden lot.

See, we made history in that lot,

didn’t we? Every corner we filled with new life,

and each time we reached a new happy.

remember how we had trouble hiding our heat

because we were having too much fun

being the way that we wanted to be?

Hey… were we everything we wanted to be?

That wretched thought bothers me a lot,

yet somehow my mind overflows with the heat

from those memories that made us the happy

children that we once were, back in that merry life.

I wonder, how can children have so much fun?

Yeah, maybe someday we can continue that fun,

but for now let’s work towards a better place to be.

in spite of everything, I still think about it a lot.

Oh, how I long to live in that heavenly life

where I can honestly say I am happy,

and finally break away from life’s miserable heat.

But even in this scorching heat, I’ll recall the endless fun

we had playing in that lot, where we became whoever we wanted to be.

yeah, I too yearn for that simple life, when we were nothing but happy.

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