by Asif Joosub

Created on: August 23, 2010

When I was younger
Life was worth living
As I grew older
I found it was just time I was serving
How wrong I was thinking I would be king

Why are there secrets hidden in youth?
Of answers you find long after your wisdom tooth
That you are only young once
And only time teaches you that’s no song and dance

What was once a river
What was once a stream
Hope floated every possible dream
When you dreamt not of gold or silver
But pockets of sweets
And treats
When you played long on the streets
No dark corner was to dark
Or just climbing up the bark

Falling
Hurting your shoulder
Then you get older
And to wake up now
Is just a static bow

What was once sweets
Are now bitter pills to swallow
In sleep now you find your retreats
Trying to escape nightmares everywhere you follow
Pain remembering old wounds calling
Old wounds you once enjoyed
The path to the ocean you find destroyed

It’s sad not to go back as time cannot be employed

It’s strange
When you younger you know what you capable of
But no matter how much for your future you try arrange
With time you evolve
With little time left later you try and resolve
The vicious circle serves only one purpose
To make you go round once then disperse

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