remember when

remember when we used to play on the swings, run in the sand , when we used to use our imagination to go back to dinosaur land?

remember when we blushed when we introduced our names to our first grade class and remember when we used to race to the swings during recess so we wouldn’t be last?

I do.

remember when we cried over popsicles and small cuts, remember when we used to sit and just talk while eating some corn nuts?

remember when life was simple and the biggest worry we ever had was if the girl sitting diagonally behind started to like us?

remember when we cried after fifth grade thinking, we wont see each other for at least two months?

I do.

what made us grow up so fast, and since when did we decide to leave cheap, simple, but nonetheless pure joy in the past?

Cause I remember when you laughed and smiled a smile so wide that your mouth touched your ears

Only because you cried so hard that you accidentally drank your tears

I remember when all we wanted to see was the Big Dipper; we just wanted to see the stars in the night shine bright enough for the moon to get jealous

But now, we want so much more, and so we’re so much sadder

Instead of appreciating experiences, we love to be different.

Instead of appreciating sharing together, we want to have everything that no one else has. (you know, like, money?)

remember when love was all we needed to put a smile on our face

remember when we’d call Jay a rotten egg for finishing last in the pie-eating race?
I do.

And thirty years from now, don’t you want to say

“I remember when I grew up so fast but I remembered that I wanted my childhood to have a long past”?

Slow. down; don’t appreciate what I can give, appreciate me.

let me love you and I’ll let you love me and let our love be enough.

let’s be kids again and enjoy these times ‘cause 2008 will never come again.

Let’s blush and cry and swing on swings and share, give and receive.

let’s love and be loved again so I can finally stop saying

“remember when.”

a poem i wrote in junior year..

remember when

remember when we used to play on the swings, run in the sand , when we used to use our imagination to go back to dinosaur land?

remember when we blushed when we introduced our names to our first grade class and remember when we used to race to the swings during recess so we wouldn’t be last?

I do.

remember when we cried over popsicles and small cuts, remember when we used to sit and just talk while eating some corn nuts?

remember when life was simple and the biggest worry we ever had was if the girl sitting diagonally behind started to like us?

remember when we cried after fifth grade thinking, we wont see each other for at least two months?

I do.

what made us grow up so fast, and since when did we decide to leave cheap, simple, but nonetheless pure joy in the past?

Cause I remember when you laughed and smiled a smile so wide that your mouth touched your ears

Only because you cried so hard that you accidentally drank your tears

I remember when all we wanted to see was the Big Dipper; we just wanted to see the stars in the night shine bright enough for the moon to get jealous

But now, we want so much more, and so we’re so much sadder

Instead of appreciating experiences, we love to be different.

Instead of appreciating sharing together, we want to have everything that no one else has. (you know, like, money?)

remember when love was all we needed to put a smile on our face

remember when we’d call Jay a rotten egg for finishing last in the pie-eating race?
I do.

And thirty years from now, don’t you want to say

“I remember when I grew up so fast but I remembered that I wanted my childhood to have a long past”?

Slow. down; don’t appreciate what I can give, appreciate me.

let me love you and I’ll let you love me and let our love be enough.

let’s be kids again and enjoy these times ‘cause 2008 will never come again.

Let’s blush and cry and swing on swings and share, give and receive.

let’s love and be loved again so I can finally stop saying

“remember when.”