The sky, I swear, was bluer then,38Please respect copyright.PENANAsNtB2IGJI0
Or perhaps that’s how I choose to remember—38Please respect copyright.PENANA3z2Git4KNZ
Those were days when trains were always late,38Please respect copyright.PENANALql5oKFOb1
And dreams often missed their stop.
We spoke in promises, never in plans,38Please respect copyright.PENANAjXHY6QYhUC
Etched our hopes in chalk along quiet streets,38Please respect copyright.PENANAsxUk7QG0kk
And laughed as though the world38Please respect copyright.PENANADUtHNjcSgD
Were made entirely of summer evenings.
Our hearts, unburdened,38Please respect copyright.PENANAqmpHtiymJQ
Knew love without disclaimers,38Please respect copyright.PENANAPoO76JXHSl
And sorrow came unnamed,38Please respect copyright.PENANAkzSmvidjIQ
Gentle in its arrival.
We lived between the chime of bells38Please respect copyright.PENANA9JbShepmHe
And the hush of cafés,38Please respect copyright.PENANAqZlfk4AD3E
Where aspirations steamed38Please respect copyright.PENANA7Bb9QJEPWB
From mugs held too long, too tightly.
Every goodbye felt temporary,38Please respect copyright.PENANA5RMw0XyFCQ
Every friendship, a forever,38Please respect copyright.PENANAlXuOBeHCLc
And each kiss38Please respect copyright.PENANAuUa0w8zrsr
A tiny rebellion against the ticking clock.
But like rain slipping from forgotten rooftops,38Please respect copyright.PENANAv6WJbPUPHA
Those moments faded—38Please respect copyright.PENANAHq21ii8WeT
Not vanished,38Please respect copyright.PENANAFnEc7GYSKS
Only softened by time’s patient hands.
That was youth.38Please respect copyright.PENANA5bnbP1pI4T
Not merely the brightness of age,38Please respect copyright.PENANADo6aZjixIT
But the ache of becoming—38Please respect copyright.PENANAPpHh2LHEkj
The quiet pain of growing into ourselves.