Yesterday's Years

ABC WEDNESDAY
http://abcwednesdayround3.blogspot.com/Letter 'Y'

YESTERDAY'S YEARS


They were so slow......
Yesterday's Years.
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Between birthday and birthday
Stretched a gulf
Across which
One could not even see,
Even shading one's eyes!
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Christmases
Were divided from each other by
Great stretches of Nothing.
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The wait for a promised holiday
Was torture,
As days passed
And it grew no nearer.
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'I can't wait!'
We said.
Surely The Grownups
Could make it happen sooner!
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Even a day was long.
When one went to bed
One could not envisage the day's earlier wakening:
It was too far removed!
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A visit from a favourite Aunt
Was cause for untold hours of waiting,
Nose to window,
Breath held in suspension!
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Then, suddenly,
About thirty years ago,
Life started to gallop!
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Last Month turned into Yesterday!
Birthdays started
To fall around me like confetti!
One Christmas
Held on to the tail
Of the one before!
They danced the conga
Lined up behind each other!
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Nor have the years reached
A respectable speed
And kept to it!
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Even as I write
They accelerate!
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The G-forces will get me
If I don't watch out!
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This seems a good time to repeat my first blog here:

http://rinklyrimes.blogspot.com/2008/05/rinkly-rime-one.html

See tomorrow's blog for the purity of White.