Yesterdays Dream*

I dreamt of faraway places
Not so very long ago
Of places exotic and distant
Where I yearned someday to go

I imagined the sights that I would see
The people I would know
The sounds of these distant places
Where I yearned someday to go

I thought I would be a traveler
An explorer who wandered so
Who'd return from distant places
Places I yearned someday to go

I am older now, if not wiser
And I no longer yearn to know
Of distant exotic places
Of places I'll never go

But now and then my mind drifts
To places still unseen
The far off exotic places
The places of yesterdays dream