Years Ago Yesterday

Years Ago Yesterday

Years ago, yesterday

Diamond dreams of happy days

Only the good remain

Yesterday? That was years ago

Flickering, fading thoughts

Drift back to happy times

Sixty years of sifting

Air-brushed sadness

Dark dreams banished

A polished past beacon bright

Every image cherished dear

Long dead, the loved live on.

Dimming eyes,

Absent thoughts

Today half-remembered

A trail of beginnings

Never finished

Once again the past is here.