And That Was When Part One, Part Two

And That Was When... 1. Those days were worlds unto themselves; A day was Forever, A night was Eternity When the truth that makes liars of us all, The knowledge of the Thing That Awaits Us All, Had not yet tainted us. You could From moment to moment Be anything or anyone you wanted, Our minds were unconstrained, We wandered freely and evolved on our own Through the countless hours. 2. Sunrise to sunset, All was a constant flow All things were aglow With steady potential, Nothing impossible, nothing implausible. This was the time you remember faintly Through the falling torrent of later years. Those years will bury their memory Until you call them back In the simplicity Of age. The dawning of life is the era of magic The crucible that mixes the elements Of what we are to be, That fires and forms the full Self that yearns to be born; The sculpture that waits inside the stone we chip at To reveal our true selves To ourselves.