a Long time Ago

it seems a long time ago
when i sat and thought
about all the things i wanted to know
about the instances that made me, in someway, grow
about people who had unfathomable faith, and never let go

it seems a long time ago
when i lived the veritable way i wanted to
when the days were wishful and nights not as blue
when everything unassumingly seemed just and true
when it wasn't much about we and i and you

it seems a long time ago
that i wasnt so alone in any fleeting way
that i could speak out all that i wished to say
that my mind flitted around and lay wherever it wanted to stay
that no frame of the past and the future
remained contained in today

it seems a long time ago
where love was considered to be of the simple and wise
where you could understand and choose,
before you came to realise
where systems were made to direct, process and analyze
where questions in the differences didn't even arise

it all seems a long time ago
what was a subtle cause to a prolific reaction
but change counted as a reason to transition
and the times came across to be discontentedly momentary
soon to be a mystical bygone, never to return.