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