Wednesday 2 May 2018

Of You: Yesterday and Today

People evolve with time, mature....
People change....become different....




I had loved the way you were Yesterday:
Spontaneous,
with that little bit
of endearing recklessness;
Heady, 

Champagne sparks bursting on my tongue! 

I'm wary of this you of Today:
Of this calibrated, standardised you.
Of the way you measure everything
With such excruciating thoroughness:

Thoughts,
Words,
Laughter..........

Then when you throw at me
That carefully mapped and weighted smile
I know for sure:
You are lost to Yesterday
Forevermore.



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