I remember

I remember, when you could
See an unaltered blue sky.
I remember playing in the
Field below the very eyes
Of heaven, and I remember
How free we all felt then...

Things are so different now,
The world is moving too fast
For me these many days. I've
Grown old and world weary,
Child and I know my day is
Comin' up over that mountain.

The electric world has caught
Up our little slice of paradise
In it's unfeeling grip, I
Have watched, with these tired
Eyes, the seduction of those
Glittering screens 'n' automobiles.

So I sit here and remember a time
Before all those contraptions, I
Sit and remember a simpler, sweeter,
Harder time that is slowly dying.
I remember that wide, unbroken,
Blue eye that was my childhood guardian.