Poetic Verses
Watching and Reflecting
Being old one can still relax and virtually have some fun
As that gets transposed by watching the children playing in the sun
Now having those arthritic knees but still can feel please
As you can see the tree tops dancing that waltz with the breeze
Those many happy sounds emitted by those joyful children
Cause you to lapse back in your days being in the same situation
Remembering how it was when you were just a little one
Also having some the frolic and with your friend jump around
Then there was no well prepared or manicured playground
You all had to make do with whatever bit of space that was to be found
Sometimes making do with even those freshly reaped cane fields
Today there is many marks by scars on these feet and knees
Houses were separated by little plots and some distance apart
And those nights my there were long, dreary and very dark
Perhaps you have made millions of steps by those little feet
As there was that call to run errands anytime in those streets
There were sometimes too on occasion there were joyous night
When there was that period when the area got bathed by moonlight
How many children take this as a treat and this illumination they greet?
By spending a great deal of time playing a game of hide and seek
Back then they consider such to be a wonderful treasure
Because there was the time to appreciate the beauty of nature
How you come to realize and to see those things around you
Therefore there was no feeling of boredom, there were lots to do
There was no great deal of cash in those household finances
Cause one to tap into that river of creativity and geniuses
Because if there was a need to have any type of play thing
Then the person had to be the one it to reality bring
Then the mind get jolted back to the period of reality
There you are again observing the children so happily
They too like you will sit somewhere and also compare
The current situation with what had occurred in their days of yesteryear.
As that gets transposed by watching the children playing in the sun
Now having those arthritic knees but still can feel please
As you can see the tree tops dancing that waltz with the breeze
Those many happy sounds emitted by those joyful children
Cause you to lapse back in your days being in the same situation
Remembering how it was when you were just a little one
Also having some the frolic and with your friend jump around
Then there was no well prepared or manicured playground
You all had to make do with whatever bit of space that was to be found
Sometimes making do with even those freshly reaped cane fields
Today there is many marks by scars on these feet and knees
Houses were separated by little plots and some distance apart
And those nights my there were long, dreary and very dark
Perhaps you have made millions of steps by those little feet
As there was that call to run errands anytime in those streets
There were sometimes too on occasion there were joyous night
When there was that period when the area got bathed by moonlight
How many children take this as a treat and this illumination they greet?
By spending a great deal of time playing a game of hide and seek
Back then they consider such to be a wonderful treasure
Because there was the time to appreciate the beauty of nature
How you come to realize and to see those things around you
Therefore there was no feeling of boredom, there were lots to do
There was no great deal of cash in those household finances
Cause one to tap into that river of creativity and geniuses
Because if there was a need to have any type of play thing
Then the person had to be the one it to reality bring
Then the mind get jolted back to the period of reality
There you are again observing the children so happily
They too like you will sit somewhere and also compare
The current situation with what had occurred in their days of yesteryear.
