The sky, I swear, was bluer then,91Please respect copyright.PENANAiPbPvz6Haw
Or perhaps that’s how I choose to remember—91Please respect copyright.PENANAtMhSK5CCi0
Those were days when trains were always late,91Please respect copyright.PENANANcL3acRt3Z
And dreams often missed their stop.
We spoke in promises, never in plans,91Please respect copyright.PENANAheRTznzc89
Etched our hopes in chalk along quiet streets,91Please respect copyright.PENANA5keR0d1w89
And laughed as though the world91Please respect copyright.PENANA0puxeWHcs2
Were made entirely of summer evenings.
Our hearts, unburdened,91Please respect copyright.PENANAcdH1lytw3s
Knew love without disclaimers,91Please respect copyright.PENANACazoar1ace
And sorrow came unnamed,91Please respect copyright.PENANABEdvG7voAW
Gentle in its arrival.
We lived between the chime of bells91Please respect copyright.PENANAYL6W5L6hNT
And the hush of cafés,91Please respect copyright.PENANAhIsLMEI04n
Where aspirations steamed91Please respect copyright.PENANAaIy2SwmuAJ
From mugs held too long, too tightly.
Every goodbye felt temporary,91Please respect copyright.PENANArFSyNOPsIJ
Every friendship, a forever,91Please respect copyright.PENANAQqK6YU2KxE
And each kiss91Please respect copyright.PENANAKohympSq22
A tiny rebellion against the ticking clock.
But like rain slipping from forgotten rooftops,91Please respect copyright.PENANAjLrnrS3pP4
Those moments faded—91Please respect copyright.PENANAtbhcj2SJ9d
Not vanished,91Please respect copyright.PENANAJGllRvgsyE
Only softened by time’s patient hands.
That was youth.91Please respect copyright.PENANAcVVihgBZlL
Not merely the brightness of age,91Please respect copyright.PENANAUV2fcWmdVP
But the ache of becoming—91Please respect copyright.PENANAwH4n2JN9Wx
The quiet pain of growing into ourselves.