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When We Were Younger.

Thinking back to the first fast days when our hearts burned with the indigestion from the chest to chin,

Butterflies flying high and wild in our stomachs at the touch of our skins.

We ran quickly into the lives of one another that May Day that first brought in our summer.

Under the sun that smoulders and scorched our shoulders, we walked into the flames that burned we were younger.

 

Twenty years down the line our hearts have grown colder.

A blockage has come between us, but we can’t move the boulder.

I’ve even tried to dig up our love’s old grave and shake the corpse back to life,

But try as I might it lies limp, it’s body as frail as its owner.

 

We’ve tried treading water in the cold blue seas.

Though our arms tired and we drifted to our knees.

The current dragging us down stream and beyond the river,

Nothing will reprise our best years gone by and the time that I have given her.

 

I still hunger for those days when we didn’t fight.

Those days that kept blazing on and on golden bright.

Those long summer days that never wanted to turned into night.

But maybe one day under the sun that'll smoulder and scorch our shoulders, we will once again walk into the flames that burned like they did when we were younger.

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jett-bleue
Northern Irish
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Jun 6, 2013
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