Lift up your feet and put them on the ground
The trees were taller (when you were young)

Roxy Music

You know it is true: everything,

sound, smell and color were more intense.

The music of every sunset meant

life imagined in future tense.

Furtive fun with the neighbor girl:

getting naked in her closet.

Animal life held fascination—

experience was not yet composite.

Childhood was made easy for us;

grown-ups could do everything.

Friends and cousins joined the chorus

Singing winter into spring—

until it turned to dry routine:

money, taxes, the hours restless . . .

times arrived where dreams were absent;

sleep eludes, and food is tasteless.

Over-analysis tends to destroy

what childhood was able to enjoy.

PROMPT # 29:

compare your everyday present life with your past self,
use specific details to conjure your past and present in the reader’s mind.