Sunday, August 9, 2026

My childhood summers

My childhood summers
 
Another day marked off on the calendar
as if it really does have a name and number,
 
my life counting down now
in months and days rather than years.
 
Death has always been an abstract to me,
an absence rather than a occurrence
 
and these days I summon up
my childhood summers
 
when time was measured
only in daylight or darkness
 
and I reconstruct as best I can
that guileless childhood abandon,   
 
moving untouched through time,    
unobservant of its inexorable passing. 
 
O child of God, Brian Darnell shall one day die.
You, on the other hand, will live forever.  



 
             

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