When We Were Young Poem by Dave Guerrero

We were young and time was young
In a place where the hours did not waste
And the old rejoiced in our love
Our youth, so jovial and innocent
Untainted and unblemished by its age

In a country where crystal streams snaked
Around lush green banks, full of life
Where tall blades of grass bustled
Upon great hills and graceful planes
Amid summer’s sweet air
Below a translucent gray haze

I and my love would lie
And there would me and my love
Happily died, in the other’s arms
Knitted too close by the strands
Of our deluded eyes

Now filled with gray, too blinded to see
Hers now filled with sleep,
Those which had slept long ago
Too young to know,
That the lands crystal streams now ebbing,
Would not always flow
And the perpetual summer
Would at some time scorch
Our blissful land, that I and my love
Always thought to know.