Real Toads Challenge: Year of Memories

"Memories Will Never Fade" by Franzey Fragility
(Frost Box)

This is for the Real Toads challenge Broken Hearts & Auto Parts as posted by Marian. Hope you all enjoy it! :)

It has been a speed-ball this year

Going from one place to another

As if the original didn't matter

Just to look over your shoulder

At the place you used to hover

Just for mere seconds it would seem

Although it had been for a century

You remember all the time outside

In the forest behind the house

Running like wild elves, in and out

As the wind streaked your hair

And the chattering birds seared

Their beautiful song in your ears

The light would glimmer in rays

Across your cold yet warm face

You remember all the time inside

Where you'd sit in the dark

Writing about a better tomorrow

Watching time ebb and flow

Right outside the shining window

And you'd stop and stare

At the ever ascending stairs

Where you first kissed her

You remember all the time with friends

Playing with chess pieces

As if they were Risk pieces

Eating pizza pockets and soda with Spree

Going out into the night

On a manhunt full of glee

All the problems and injuries

That made us who we wanted to be

Something more than friends

Something that lasted for eternity

You remember all the time of parties

Where you'd bring out the drinks

And celebrate someone's birthday

Or the graduation that was meant to be

With a roasting barbecue outside

And the smell of the delicious smoke

Bringing the thirst to your mouth

Then we'd sit together and eat

For as long as there was plenty

Winter would come soon enough

And the bitterness was quite abrupt

We'd warm ourselves by the fire

Talking of stories with our father

And run outside in the morning

To build snowmen and forts

Barricading us from the missiles of course

Then we'd lay atop that soft powder

And cast our angels in the snow

Those were memories in the past

Because we know they won't last

Not when your a wanderer

Just like me, gazing across the sea

I cast out my line, hoping for a fish

That I could reel in with time

To settle down and make a life with

But alas it wouldn't come to be

With a broken heart feeling empty

For nobody wants a wanderer like me

Then we live to forget our past

For that is how memories last

As reminders of what we see

As reminders so full of glee

Because a normal life isn't sown

Not in the tapestries we bestow,

Oh no, memories of that year

Were memories I couldn't see

The ones that stayed hidden from me

Because a wanderer is lost

In search for his way home.

Question: "What life will you make full of memories?"