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You are, Life was.

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You are lost in faded memories,
growing dust in old photographs.

Life was a brief flash back then,
no one knew what it was to age.


You are dried and broken,
like crushed flowers in broken books.


Life was full of wonderment,
when no one knew where to find the answers.


You are soft shoe echoes,
whimpering silently across the hall's draft.

Life was full of dance, full of song,
and the world smiled altogether when they got along.


You are empty whiskey bottles and medicine jars,
the last things I can remember on your table.

Life was sleepy back then, and promises were solid,
But time was a void that filled gently.


You are old crackling radios that lost their voice,
and abandoned metal, rusted from its original shape.

Life was simpler, life was freer, life was newer,
Age buries us all, it will bury you too.


You are lost in faded memories,
growing dust in old photographs.
Written for rawem0tion's theme for the week Old Photographs.
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hijouguchi's avatar
... if I think, what's going to happen to all of us, it's quite sad...

Well written. :clap: