“Retrospect”

peering back

through the years

i remember

the vivid hues

of times gone by,

the euphoric highs

of younger days

throbbing with excitement

as i chatted up

the world

and wrote it all down

in my many notebooks

i would later on

simply destroy,

unmedicated and

not too concerned

as life whizzed by

in a manic blur of

carefree carelessness,

one day bleeding

into the next

as i slowly became

whatever it is

i am today