Mark Dohle,
US
Free Verse
The good
old days
Nostalgic
memories
scrubbed clean of pain,
only the illusion of things better,
yet perhaps that is preferable
than having only dark memories
that can't be sanitized.
Today…, will one day be looked at with yearning
as a time innocent and pure,
while the present (in the future)
filled with pain and worry
with droplets of joy;
(life’s little consolations),
along a rough and dreary road;
the present seems always so,
the past for most a better address.
Perhaps we are blind to the good now,
pain and anxious concern
sweeping us away inwardly
from what is simply before us.
Until the cycle continues,
the present (in the future) becomes the
"good old days".
We are good at cleaning memories,
a boon I believe
for those who live in a world
that is unstable,
chaotic,
and perhaps giving very little hope.
