We’ve heard the words
a hundred times
’you‘re so young’
’much life is ahead of you’
yet does it truly
make one feel better
when the past is blurred
and today serves discontent?
Our world
such is our un-changing world
of many ages
fuelled by fear and rage
Can one
embody his evolving heart
when around us
none can embrace change?
The man in the mirror
can recall
the many moons
the many bars
All those times
displeased with the world
and himself
such a naive man he was
17 years
one spent moulded
not as an individual
but a dividual
and when a second chance was realised
the man chose
to be hard boiled
and observant
the few years since
I have seen
the rendered man
diminishing but with quarrel
in another decade or so
perhaps the effect
will be reversed
but only at my expense
I am now 23
and I hope to see
a different man
in the mirror
at the end of 44 seasons
beginning this summer
it leads a life
unto old death.