Nostalgia

On the illusion of simpler times...

NOSTALGIA

I still remember the world
before the towers fell.
Before the advent of AIM,
DMs and friend requests.
Before Trump and Gaza
and global warming.
Life was simpler then,
at least that's what 
     I remember,
but ask my father 
and he'll say he remembers
a world before
Color TV, Apollo 11,
the Cold War and Clinton.
     One day,
you will look at your son 
and say the same.
Now your world is small
but each year it widens
and every time it does
I'm forced to
watch your little 
face lengthen
and your chubby cheeks fade—
the simple world you know
an old man's masquerade

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