The sky, I swear, was bluer then,101Please respect copyright.PENANAeaMB4lSfQ7
Or perhaps that’s how I choose to remember—101Please respect copyright.PENANAxd30vHaHBI
Those were days when trains were always late,101Please respect copyright.PENANADzfus4AVzg
And dreams often missed their stop.
We spoke in promises, never in plans,101Please respect copyright.PENANAq2iqx1Czjo
Etched our hopes in chalk along quiet streets,101Please respect copyright.PENANAYWoXvNkvoH
And laughed as though the world101Please respect copyright.PENANAdFmiYlL8KF
Were made entirely of summer evenings.
Our hearts, unburdened,101Please respect copyright.PENANALtaK1Y6wVc
Knew love without disclaimers,101Please respect copyright.PENANA6qR7Vi56io
And sorrow came unnamed,101Please respect copyright.PENANAkHyPhCk6kv
Gentle in its arrival.
We lived between the chime of bells101Please respect copyright.PENANAGAZ7oPLaCI
And the hush of cafés,101Please respect copyright.PENANAGvYsNweKjh
Where aspirations steamed101Please respect copyright.PENANARLVHofNzMM
From mugs held too long, too tightly.
Every goodbye felt temporary,101Please respect copyright.PENANAb7O8szWNCQ
Every friendship, a forever,101Please respect copyright.PENANALrEZUPP0Cl
And each kiss101Please respect copyright.PENANAlYauv71mE7
A tiny rebellion against the ticking clock.
But like rain slipping from forgotten rooftops,101Please respect copyright.PENANAHMRlIWLDwv
Those moments faded—101Please respect copyright.PENANAWTcKokgeZf
Not vanished,101Please respect copyright.PENANAVwWHXVD2ID
Only softened by time’s patient hands.
That was youth.101Please respect copyright.PENANAIsp80tNcNb
Not merely the brightness of age,101Please respect copyright.PENANAzSeXnUvbzv
But the ache of becoming—101Please respect copyright.PENANARcwIlWd7qA
The quiet pain of growing into ourselves.