We’ve watched this Before

We’ve watched this movie

Our entire lives,

From behind the eyes.

What once were infantile memories,

We watched grow

Into nostalgia.

We saw faces age,

Making sweeter the memories

As gone as the days

We once knew.

The warmth that came,

With remembering,

With traveling back

To a beautiful sliver in time.

To recall

All the days

That had both light

And dark.

That brought

The threads of joy

That keep us hanging on.

The ones who walked before

And those who follow after

Impress upon one another

The trials

Of time

And survival.

They hold close

Those who made life

Livable.

How small man must have felt

In the expanse of earth

Without nearly the thread

Binding him together

To others who care

And wish him well.