Day Of Childhood Poem by Colin Ian Jeffery

Days of childhood were good, so delightful
Life joyfully inspired and enhanced with family love
Friends, schoolmates, and ever cheerful neighbours
Such royal experiences that I would relive again.
Living in a street with all the doors unlocked
Discoveries, adventures, and innocence supreme.
Now, only memories still captivating the heart
Images of parents and brother seated eating at table
Mother serving dinner with father telling his stories.
I often see the smiling faces of childhood friends,
Glimpsed so briefly before fading away.
Old age holds me in sway as I step towards my end
Desolate for lost golden days of childhood
When all was rich and royal with love and happiness.