The sky, I swear, was bluer then,444Please respect copyright.PENANANMNfQazD10
Or perhaps that’s how I choose to remember—444Please respect copyright.PENANARHiWp8yFUg
Those were days when trains were always late,444Please respect copyright.PENANATgWFdoeChR
And dreams often missed their stop.
We spoke in promises, never in plans,444Please respect copyright.PENANAXVigVAvNhd
Etched our hopes in chalk along quiet streets,444Please respect copyright.PENANAVzPSW92ulE
And laughed as though the world444Please respect copyright.PENANA2Bp8sI1Syu
Were made entirely of summer evenings.
Our hearts, unburdened,444Please respect copyright.PENANAS4F7ot623p
Knew love without disclaimers,444Please respect copyright.PENANA9iFyCUZT8E
And sorrow came unnamed,444Please respect copyright.PENANAfpXmxsyDOP
Gentle in its arrival.
We lived between the chime of bells444Please respect copyright.PENANA7qNnp4j2P8
And the hush of cafés,444Please respect copyright.PENANASWWDO2jPHX
Where aspirations steamed444Please respect copyright.PENANABYDvoA7jZV
From mugs held too long, too tightly.
Every goodbye felt temporary,444Please respect copyright.PENANAaKNBQtcz5Z
Every friendship, a forever,444Please respect copyright.PENANAHd7L9i3cm4
And each kiss444Please respect copyright.PENANA2k2s9xzPjS
A tiny rebellion against the ticking clock.
But like rain slipping from forgotten rooftops,444Please respect copyright.PENANAsDQjmvah5H
Those moments faded—444Please respect copyright.PENANAGJZyyZh58A
Not vanished,444Please respect copyright.PENANATfPdzgcjXf
Only softened by time’s patient hands.
That was youth.444Please respect copyright.PENANArI3s8tl0TP
Not merely the brightness of age,444Please respect copyright.PENANAESsASMdeHk
But the ache of becoming—444Please respect copyright.PENANAViMAqZ75po
The quiet pain of growing into ourselves.


