remember when...

remember when the absolute best thing you could think of to do on a friday night was go clothes shopping with your mom?

and when you used to think that you'd be married with kids by the age that she was married with kids?

and life was simpler?

remember back to before you realized that yearning and pain are a part of the human condition?

and that sometimes, when people seem to good to be true

they are

or, they are taken away from you too soon?

remember when you didn't have to put on tight jeans, a sexy top, and heels to attract a boy?

and you were still young enough to say exactly what you thought

right when you thought it?

remember when you realized that all the people you loved

would never, ever

all be in the same place
at the same time
with you?

the first time you felt loss
the first time you felt love

the first time you felt pain
and knew you would feel it again

i do.