Yesteryear:

One of my all time favourite movie lines

comes from the film Gladiator

the line simply says:

If you find yourself alone, riding in the green fields with the sun on your face, do not be troubled. For you are in Elysium 
( Roman For Heaven )

This made me pause and think

of 

times when young

how we would run through tall blades of grass

in fields deep and wide

our arms outstretched

so that 

our hands brushed each stem

how soft and gentle it did feel

with the sun on ones face

and not a care in the world

oh but to be young again

the silence of city life

dimmed by the wildness

that was around us so

upon the ground we would lay

staring up at the blue skies

making pictures 

out of the sailing clouds

of too places

we could only dream

maybe a pirate island

or even the seven seas

it did not matter

for to us

they where going

wherever we wanted them to go

such times 

seem so long ago

but oh so fondly remembered

with a passion and love

that keeps the memory alive

in my heart and mind

to replay

when walking in fields of grass

I still reach out my hands

touch the grass

feel it moving in the breeze

that pushes by 

and all at once

I am reminded

age 

does not hinder

for

we can all still be

young once again

when running through 

fields of grass

~X~