Once When We Were Young Poem by Bryan Taplits

Remember, eternal-
when I merely a tad-
each be-ribboned girl grinned
At each earnest lad.
There were no sunsets
-all were green lawns-
And each gloried-tomorrow nurtured
A rising rosy dawn.
The choices then were simple
and all so much fun,
No surrendering, not to anyone-
for we were both young!
'Life' knew no boundaries
Grand guffaws would come
And all of us thinking,
We were 'The One'.
But then bags fully packed
as youth hurriedly sent-
Sober and secured
towards adolescence.
Soon blooms grew heavy-
yielding to the winds-
As all unrequited 'loving'
Clustered into venial sins.
And now as we look back
And turn about-
here is what we see,
And here is what is found:
A patterned tomorrow, a kindled young spark-
And sorrowed regrets that lay on soggy wintered grounds.
With a yearning passed yearning
to once again view-
That fire of ambition
Its heat and its hue.
Oh, the sweet ripening of humanity
It is gripped, never grasped,
Yes,
all those blossoms shimmered
In my heat-waved verdant past.