Once Upon A Time

• David Kim, Grade 10
• Poetry
• 2009

Life used to be fun, so simple and sweet,
We treasured the pleasures; we lived each heartbeat,
And youth had no bounds, no fences to leap,
And when the day had wasted we beckoned to sleep.

But there lying dormant, life did not lie.
It pounced and it ran, it fell and it flied,
Living out dreams and future ambitions,
Restless and yearning for more dereliction.

But the days grow old and ages the days,
Life now rocks in a deckchair and strays,
To the beat of sighs and decaying sinew,
Into conversations narcotic and blue.

We are the dead, but live we still,
In bodies that demand a greater fill,
Which leech off memories of cordial lime,
Which tasted so sweet, once upon a time.