One Year Ago

One year ago, my path was green,
My footsteps light, my brow serene;
Alas! And could it have been so
One year ago?

I trodded my past,
With promises to last,
Confident of the past
And could it have been so
One year ago?

I opened this treasure chest,
My very best,
But found nothing but an empty nest.
That was a year ago.

Such was my state of being
On that lovely evening,
One year ago.

Painful and true,
There’s nothing else I can do,
But pick up the pieces and start anew.

Slowly, -- they fill,
This treasure chest.
In packets called
Essays, poems and stories
Otherwise known as
Requirements.

There came a day,
A year ago
When I thought I had none, but
Alas! That was a year ago.


*this was written as my last piece in my English Grammar class. This is also dedicated to the one who helped me a lot in my humbling experience in the Juniorate program, Dr. Marlu Vilches. The title and the first paragraph was written by Walter Savage Landor, 1846.