Do you recall?

Have you ever sat down and thought about your earliest memories?

Your first day in elementary or the first time you ever saw Santa Claus?

Have you thought about those days when you played in the sand?

Or ran under the rain,without the fear of thunder.

Those times you kept malice with your best friend and later reconciled?

Those days when we didn’t equate happiness in possessions?

And to be wise was not the same as cunning?

Those days we couldn’t tell the son of a millionaire from a peasant farmer?

Those days we had little but were so contented.

Those days we went on fruit expeditions and you could eat freely from any home?

Before we mastered pride and grew egos?

Can you recall the joy of having new Christmas clothes or shoes that glowed?

Before we leant how to judge a man’s worth by his clothes?

When we played soccer with designer shoes and didn’t care?

Do you recall how we would play hide and seek only for those two friends who always went missing?

Do you recall the times when you had to draw for your crush?

And write letters with big words which were out of context?

Those days are far gone now..
The future we desire seems bleak now.

And the past even more glorious
if I had a time machine.

I will visit the past,not to change anything,
But to experience certain things twice.

Parkwat Walkyes

May 16,2020.