Drifting in and out

Open eyes without waking

Where kids laugh and shout

Memories are ripe for taking

Hard to believe that you were much smaller

That you used to not know about the problems all around

Back then, you wished you were taller

But now you know you could have drowned

Back then, awakened at a different town

With all the people you will forget

Back then, at the school that is now taken down

And the tourists moving in have no regret

Somewhere else, your happy childhood home, is being destroyed

And someone else is going up

Nostalgia and pain employed

It's all a part of growing up