Reminiscing

Reminiscing

reminiscing it makes me sad but also happy

I remember when I was young and now I'm old

I see my children they are not little children any more

how I wish we didn't age or at least we did not die.

I reminisce of TV shows and the actors that are now gone

I think about the lives we lived and it makes me cry

knowing that some of my friends are dead and not alive

it feels like only yesterday i kissed my first girl

but I know it's just a memory but how I remember it well

why do we grow old and why do we get sick and why do we die

I know the Creator created everything to be the way it has been

but still I ask myself why oh why.

Reminiscing makes me cry but it also makes me happy

but how I wish it could be different

O, how I wish we would not die.

by Carlos Gomez/Water 11-28-22