Reflecting

Time moves unstoppable even without a clock

Before you know young you are naught

Yesteryear whilst I was young

Told it was smart to bite my tongue

Embarked on my dreams

A fight all upstream

Never-the-less only hope did it seem

In my young mind, I did know my scheme

And it seems long ago

That young man that I was

And then I found her

I called her my love

Embark on new life

Her and I

Time marches forward

No longer we’re spry

 But times have improved I suppose

Technology, things we never dreamed of

But I sit in repose

Telling my wife about many who chose

And just sitting here thinking

About all those old timers

Playing cards and drinking

Toasting, their glasses clinking

All those winters come and gone

Children all grown up

All those days of bygone

Look at me, no longer that young pup

Nope don’t take a clock to tick the time away

Here I am grayer, retired

I made my fair share of mistakes

But we all do then better we aspired

So if your winters you have not reached

My hope is that for some I can teach

Laugh naught at time

It’s not on your side

Think carefully my friends

It’s for you to decide

Carolee Dennis-Woosley

August 5, 2012