D.Greaves http://dgreaves.posterous.com Well Veresed. Never Rehearsed. posterous.com Mon, 24 Jan 2011 15:50:00 -0800 OUR PLAYGROUND OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS http://dgreaves.posterous.com/our-playground-of-forgotten-dreams http://dgreaves.posterous.com/our-playground-of-forgotten-dreams

Teenlove

Yeah..y'all wanna ride with me?

come on..let's go back

for some of us WAYYYYY BACK! LOL!

Kool..keep that smile going..I dig that

let's go....

 

Running through abandoned buildings

can't find you

don't know where 2 begin

I vibe while listening 2 the distant echoes

of our inner city origins

 

Chilling on the front steps

you and I

friends and pairs

listening 2 late night music

your girlfriend twisting braids into your hair

 

Why when we grow older

is a smile never as it once seemed

still, every time I feel lonely baby girl

I reminisce about

Our Playground of Forgotten Dreams

 

The ice cream truck is coming

I don't have but 50 cents

I buy you a double cone with sprinkles

the best money I've ever spent

 

All around us chaos

adults lving with obvious lies

but Philly became a slice of Paradise baby love

when I looked into your eyes

 

Running 2 catch the fellas

playing basketball

choosing teams

now every time I pass a park baby girl

I reminisce about

Our Playground of Forgotten Dreams

 

Check it out...

and then I slide

into a magic carpet ride

when Black Pride

was our guide

and when you cried

your tears I dried

when we played seek and hide

I was on your side

but when I looked around

the dream had died

and no matter how hard we tried

the gulf was

much too wide

sadly now

only with our memories

I can confide

 

 

Running through the early morning

catch my girl

kiss my girl

in grass wet with morning dew

stopping 2 smell your perfume

ignoring the smart remarks of my crew

 

Why can't the school bell ring sooner

I need 2 feel your smile

ignoring the street corner prophets

and the neglected garbage piles

 

Time waits 4 no one

true words spoken

but why must he be such a fiend

leaving adult hearts lonely

with only

Our Playground of Forgotten Dreams

 

Placing my favorite gold chain

around your slender neck

all the fellas know now you belong 2 D'ee

so they'd better come correct

 

Starting the 1st day of high school

trying so hard

holding on to our grade school crush

but different faces

in new places

affects each and every one of us

 

Despite all of the new technology

current reality

and distant memory

stand side by side on a balance beam

can't relive the past

only thing that lasts

is reminiscing about

Our Playground of Forgotten Dreams

 

check it out...

and though our memories

are always free

I don't need them 2 be

constantly

reminding me

of the ecstasy

of you lying next 2 me

no one but you and I

I and U

you and me

he and she

my baby love and D'ee

kissing under

a canopy

of sycamore trees

imploring the birds

and the bees

2 represent the reality

of 2 young lovers sharing

love's destiny

 

yeah...i dedicate this joint 2 the 5-8 what's it Worth crew

2 Neicy

Tiff

Charlene

Stephanie

and last but certainly not least Poo

 

much respect and love....

let it fade....

Creative Commons License
All Poetry by D.Greaves/Darwin Greaves by D.Greaves-Darwin Greaves is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Based on a work at dgreaves.posterous.com.
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at http://dgreaves.posterous.com/pages/dgreaves-tos

Permalink | Leave a comment  »

]]>
http://files.posterous.com/user_profile_pics/993135/www.dgreavesthepoet.png http://posterous.com/users/1kW0JkHfQfeh Darwin Greaves D'EE Darwin Greaves