The Paths Our Lives Would Lead

Looking back on simpler moments,

people and places once held highly

that matter so little now

Changes and choices amid the chaos

bear no nostalgic filters

just memories of times before

believed to be so difficult

yet easier than those we’d find further down

the paths our lives would lead

Now we reflect not in reverence

or deference to what came previous

but in awe and mourning of

the folly we were facing

in ever thinking things would hinge

so precariously on foundations built

entirely of that which we didn’t understand