Yesterday when I was young,
the world was not complicated.
No worries hovered above my head
only a sky of blue and the sun.
What a change it is now
as the older I get.
Problems seem to surface
from everything I touch
and I hark for again
yesterday when I was young.
16 February 2011
David Harris
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/when-i-was-young-22/