doo-wop

do you remember when
headaches lasted ten minutes
and nobody really cared about writing
except for us, of course
and rainy days were sleepy and warm
(except when we would go outside and play in the mud)

(speaking of mud,)
how long has it been since happy was happy
and sad was sad?
that's a bad question. we always lived in shades.
the difference is that before, it was
blues and greens and oranges
and sometimes reds.
not so much grey.

(today was grey, but i kept on seeing white).
i feel like tonight
is the start of tomorrow,
and so on.
and i feel like the worlds i went to years ago
are swinging round again,
for a moment at least.
how long has it been since we've visited,
you and me?

(back then, we didn't care about grammar, either).