Do you remember when
the water ran
thin
and sparkling;

A clean adventure
for people parting
families driving
to some nature park
where they could visit
nature’s spark.

Her lush green heart.
Her brown hopeful hearth
where life was bound
to spring in spring
renewed to bring
flowering things,
becoming
her sweet colored
flower dreams.

Do you remember when
off colored photos
smiled back
while we looked in
to a wonderful past.

A place where
the children there
were a Neverland crew
who never grew up,
never got mean,
never cried,
and never died.
just a still life,
in millisecond smiles.

I remember when,
that particular then
was a now.
Now, I look back
and every memory
seems slightly distorted
or completely eludes me.