Oh, how I dreamed of those firefly nights
And our playful games and fights
With the setting of the sun, through the fields we'd run
I remember those memories vividly
But they can no longer be
They are now owned by the past and can no longer last
And now me and my friends have grown up
Yet I still feel stuck
To go back, I yearn, just to return
And one day I was granted a wish
Then with a pop and a swish
I returned to what was mine, I traveled back in time
I returned to that firefly night
But nobody was in sight
They all moved on, they all were gone
They all grew up from day to day
And not even time was there to stay
And I was forever alone in the place I used to call home
this is my 72nd poem, written on 12/28/23