Once Upon a Sea of Grass

Once upon a sea of grass,

I paused to let some time slip past.

I took a breath, inhaled the air,

As if I wasn't anywhere.

I turned my focus to the sky

To watch some clouds go passing by

And listen to the chirping birds,

Their lovely songs in unknown words.

The field was full of verdant green,

The sight of snow still left unseen.

I sat there in my lackadaise

While longing for my simpler days,

When I was young and thin and spry,

And I still dreamed and did and tried,

Before when summers seemed to last,

Once upon a sea of grass.