Embrace

Oh! how I yearn for those days,
when I used to listen and you used to say.

Things about the future, stories about past,
They say it is as good as it lasts!

Let us celebrate present this time,
Hoping the rest to be sublime.

Ragged and jagged memory for a feast!
It's been quite a journey, to say the least.

Shame we couldn't make this life long.
Let guilt be upon us for making it so strong!

* Came across this nugget, tucked away in my draft. Composed slightly over a decade ago. A sense of nostalgia, reflection on the past, and a bittersweet acknowledgment of the passage of time. As much as things change, they remain the same. We are just tiny cogs in the wheels of life, mere waves on the vast ocean.