It Seems Like Yesterday
By Larry Linville
I went to a funeral the other day
and watched as the minister stood up to pray.
My mind was transported back some forty years
When we both were young bucks among all our peers.
During the years so many things have transpired.
Now we both are listed among those retired
It was so long ago but it seems like yesterday
I had waited all my life to attend school.
That was long before it was “in” to say “cool!”
My teacher was scheduled to stop to get me
so I was waiting out in front by a tree.
In the distance her car appeared to my eye
but she just waved and smiled as she drove right by.
It was so long ago but it seems like yesterday.
The day of my wedding had at last arrived.
That terrible rehearsal I had survived.
I shopped everywhere all morning to acquire
a replacement spare for my odd-sized flat tire.
Then the maid of honor was running so late
that we tried to decide how long we could wait
It was so long ago but it seems like yesterday.
Today is a new page in your book of life.
Events which seem simple may someday be rife.
Time will pass quickly but seem to pass so slow
like yeast at work in a rising loaf of dough.
Someday you’ll sit there as you slow down your pace
and recall these things with a smile on your face.
It was so long ago but it seems like yesterday.
© Copyright 2007 Larry Linville (UN: larrylinville at Writing.Com).
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This makes me laugh---one of the ministers that was to marry John and I did have a flat tire between Kirksivlle and Green City, on a cold December 23rd afternoon at about 3 p.m. He is in his 90s now and lives in Blue Springs---Rev. Marvin Fortel. Rev. Bill Sutton was the minister at Green City at the time-------then a minister stood up with John---campus minister. We had too many ministers in family and friends. John's father decided to be just the father of the groom that day.
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