When Yesterday I Bring To Now Poem by Mihaela Pirjol

When Yesterday I bring to Now,
Unfolding in my mind,
Regret in heart, somehow,
The life I've had behind;

With its forgotten tears,
The wounds, which made me grow,
And childish little fears
Myself I've learnt to know.

No time could teach me best,
More than my springy years:
Little was I then, and blessed,
And quickly dried my tears.

But now my life in summer is:
No cheerful spirit, nor a glow;
Unshed, —erode the heart, and bruise:
They do not dare to flow!

This Pride, and sense of Self
To free my tears and clear my head!
And no fear in sharing with a friend,
For all we need a tear to shed.

From now, till I will cease to be,
In joyful spirit as a child I shall live:
Curiously absorbing life with glee,
And old enough, with no regrets to leave.