Cogitation

 

Depending on your age or having a busy schedule, have you forgotten your younger years?

A poem about contemplation, nostalgia, personal history, and the human tendency to forget the beauty of earlier life unless we consciously revisit it. 

Encouraging the reader to slow down and cherish their memories—both joyful and painful—because they form the foundation of who we are.

Title.

Cogitation.

(A deep thought whispers)

Have you ever sat under the sun and paused for a minute, to looked back over your life's many old pages?

Remembering how you once ran, with whom, and at what age?

Or have those old memories turned to dust?

Treasured moments shared with beloved family and friends. 

Even young and old love?

Moments of misery compounded by giant moments of victory.

People you once trusted, now resigned to your own pages of history?

So, I'll ask again and use this as a prompt within this prose.

Have you ever paused under the hot sun?

Sat in the shade and looked back at old memories, as they replayed?

Remembering happier times when you were having such fun?

The best ones, with maybe even those you miss, who are no longer around, as those incredible memories are eventually found? 

(C) Copyright John Duffy 

Cogitation: The action of thinking deeply about something; contemplation.

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