Dreams from yestertimes.
“You have the freedom to be yourself, your true self, here and now, and nothing can stand in your way.” Jonathan Livingston Seagull (Richard Bach)
Yestertime
Lessons Learned
Yestertime, when I was young, I marvelled at the gulls that came
When the farmers ploughed their fields,
And in the summer, too, when the wheat waved like the waves at sea
And all the world was new to me,
I always did believe my heart could soar like gulls on silver wings,
Imagination flowed in streams
Yestertime, when life was such a mystery, the whole world called,
and my mind was full of dreams
And when I grew and went out there into the world,
I met a wonder lady who wonderstruck my heart;
We lived a wonder life, each day another start,
We raised a family, and lived to see the sun,
It cured my wanderlust, I had no wish to run
The way I ran in yestertimes, when I was young.
It truly broke my heart to have to say goodbye.
I took me to the park, it felt like spring to me,
I listened to some jazz, the passion of her heart,
Such timeless tunes they were that comfort and inspire
It brought back home to me the fondest memories,
Chapters in our lives, and for each I shed a tear,
And there I read the world goes on, my path is clear:
You always get chance for another new start.
They asked me for the secret of enduring love;
I told them this: you take the better part of each
And live by that, the better part of her in you
The better part of you in her, and that will teach
How to make your yestertimes live inside the love
You carry in your heart, for all your future times.
Seagull pic: https://www.pinterest.com/lauracunhavaz/trabalho-ev-gatos-e-gaivotas/
