I remember

I am an old man

all I do is sit around

I watch the TV

I turn up the sound

my hearing is shot

my bones, they ache

and sometimes I think

it was all a mistake

but I'm still alive

a last dying ember

and I remember

I don't walk so good now

I must use a cane

I still get around

but it isn't the same

I used to explore

when I was a kid

Lord, when I think of

the things that I did

from the middle of June

to the start of September

I remember

          I remember those days

          of being a child

          I was never afraid

          and my daydreams grew wild

          I remember those days

          a young man I was

          I knew what it felt like

          to fall in love

I once had a wife

and kids numbered four

now my darling's in heaven

I hardly see the kids anymore

I sit in a home

and they treat me okay

but what I would give

for my younger days

back when time was tender

I remember

now I am here for

my remainder of days

I live on medications

in a chemical haze

but I am not sorry

for the life that I've led

I just wish it weren't ending

in a hospital bed

now it's my time to surrender

but I remember