The Past Does Live On Poem by Francis Duggan

I thought i had put the past behind me but thought again has proved me wrong
For wherever i travel to with me it goes along
The friends of my younger years in memory with me today
Though some of them are where the deceased now does lay

The past in reality may be gone but the memories of it remain
And with my young friends i play football again
Back in the days when my hair was dark brown
On Summer evenings we played until dark in the park of the town

Wherever i go to my past goes with me
In the green and grassy fields Nature's wildflowers i do see
When the hawthorns are cloaked in their white blooms of the May
Though that was years ago in a place from here far away

But the now is all that does matter as the wise one does say
And come tomorrow the past it will be today
But we retain the mental images of the what used to be
For the past does live on in everyone's memory.