Days gone by...

This last few week have become a blur and i think I have lost a few days.
Long work days and going right to bed after having a late dinner just makes
time go by too fast. Sunday goes by then the next think I know its Saturday
again. When I was a kid in school time would linger; you could feel every
minute go by. The days in Summer would last forever. Miles and miles would
be done on a bicycle. The Sun would take hours to go down. Countless games
of Ghost in the graveyard could be played in the time that the church bells
would ring PM and the sun would drop behind the horizon. Even after sundown
we would steal the family flashlight and play flashlight tag. Gather fire
flies and place them in coffee cans or mayo jars with a whole in the lids.
I grew up in an Urban suburb of Chicago and we didn't have fire pits them
but we had the stoop. We would sit on the stairs and gab for hours and just
talk about bands and listen to the radio. We would bad mouth disco and
listen to kiss on the 8 track..... wow did I just date my self....
I don't know what I miss the most from being a kid. My friends (I don't see
any of them any more) or the innocence? The feeling that you were going to
be young forever an that the days were yours? No taxes, money , car, visa,
cell phones, cable or any thing else. You were given $5 for the week and
you made due with it. You would go and bring back the glass coke bottles
for a dime a piece. On occasion you would find a car battery in the alley
and bring it to the battery shop 2 miles away for the $5.00.
The shame is that I didn't even notice the summer go buy this year. I
bitched about the heat for a few days. I went to work and I went to sleep.
I need to pause my life for a few days and slow down the day. --