Earth and Eternity
Your youth haunts the place in your mind that you rarely, if ever visit.
Barefoot on rural earth
Eternal future stretches
Into far-flung infinity.
A child in a body changing
Too quickly to understand.
This strange new outer shell
Wraps itself around a girl
Who still loves her Barbies
But has caught scent of things
Mysterious, worldly, foreign.
Things walled from the world
Of a child.
And then the carnival calls with it’s
Light and its glitter, teddy bears,
And the scent of beer in the air
On a hot Summer’s night with
A merry-go-round and child’s laughter
“If I catch the gold ring”...
And the years fly by so quickly after...
But this is how I remember it.
The grown-ups saying “These are the best
Years of your life”
But they were mere moments.
Caught between earth and eternity.
About the Creator
Tammy Castleman
I have been an avid writer and photographer for most of my life. In terms of true passions, those are mine. What I lack for in memory, I make up for in recorded detail. We are what we leave behind.
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