Long Ago Happenings

Long Ago Happenings

© by Bud Lemire on Jan 27, 2015

So many memories are stored in our head

Of long ago happenings and those who are dead

A friend told me of his visit in the Astral Plane

Which had him taking me down Memory Lane

On the phone he had me traveling

All of the past was soon unraveling

Back to the years so long ago

Into the home I use to know

So many people, so many faces

That we have met, in familiar places

People who we've not heard about in years

Soon were spoken about and entered our ears

I jogged his memory, from out of my mind

With people we knew, that we've left behind

But bringing them back, seemed like yesterday

Almost as though, they never went away

He'd remember something, which I couldn't do

Then my memory would help him pull something through

Going back and forth on what we could recall

We were thankful we could remember anything at all

It sure felt good, to remember the times we shared

Of Long Ago Happenings, and all the things that we dared

This poem came to be when my close friend Basil called me

and said I was in his dream. He said we started out in my

apartment but soon we were back in my old Family Home

on North 14^th Street behind Ernie's. It was like we had gone

back in time to our younger days. Soon on the phone we started

sharing our memories with one another, and it was indeed a

very wonderful trip back in time to those times. To the days of

those Long Ago Happenings.