Young Days' Flashback Poem by Sentamu Aziz

YOUNG DAYS' FLASHBACK

Blessed to be born
Jolly lovely baby
Cared for like Queen Bee
Gaping at lots of nectar
Only left to be fed

Shoes in opposite feet aged one
Crying for school at two
Sweets and biscuits at four
Till tears go dry at seven

Carried on the lap
Watching Tom and Jerry
On bright sunny weekends
If wishes were horses
Mondays would be Sundays
A wish of then
For no worry was work
All left to Dad
To buy and provide
Mum to care and cook
For all I had to do
Eat sleep and play

Sweet Sunday school days
Swings and see-saws at church
Lovely poems and songs
Throwing dolls around
Rolling toys in dust
Skipping and hoping in with peers
Playing Cat and Mouse

Fun filled childhood days
Rolling tyres in estates
Playing hide and seek
Acting cops and thieves
Memories of childhood days
No challenges no worries
Only one big fear
Canes for getting dirty

Once a child
With dreams and wishes
So much of prayer
To be so useful
As an adult in society
With never a worry
Of missing the past
Till now as I speak