Yesterday

If I could,

I would,

I'd go back,

Trap myself,

In the realm

Of my yesterday

Yesterday,

When I wasn't

afraid to dream,

afraid to laugh,

afraid to dance,

afraid to love,

afraid to cry,

afraid to live,

Yesterday,

When my biggest worry was,

What am I watching tonight?

Or, if I wear this,

will you notice me?

Yesterday,

though I failed

to see it then,

I had everything,

My virgin heart

had never known pain,

My innocent eyes

had never felt

the stinging urge

to shed tears,

My delicate thinking,

was that of a child

Yesterday,

I'd give anything,

to go back just once,

the innocence,

of the child in me,

could cleanse this corrupted aura,

of what the present me has endured