DECADES - A BIRTHDAY POEM - JANUARY 2014
OMG how can it be
Only yesterday I was twenty three
Young relaxed and worry free
With endless decades in front of me.
When did all those years go by?
Seems they passed in the blink of an eye
And in the place of youthful glow
An older face began to show
Through tri-focal lenses I see the past
The memories still holding fast
The treasured moments strong and clear
So many gone – I wish were here
Happy times and carefree days
The sixties in a “purple haze”
Peace and love without a care
Nostalgia often takes me there.
The seventies – I found my heart
The kids were born and life would start
The chaos and the blissful mess
That put my patience to the test
The eighties – busy as can be
Everyone is needing me
A working Mom who’s on the run
Turning 40 – not much fun
Upon reflection of way back when
Wish I were as old as I thought I was then
The 90’s would take us far away
To Texas where we are today
The century turned and the future was here
I began to push 60 which filled me with fear
Technology boomed and Facebook did too
Long ago friends became friends anew
Now empty nesters – kids are all grown
With lives and families of their own
Medicare would takes it’s place
Beside the lines upon my face.
Someone said “grow old with me – the best of life is yet to be”
I’m not so sure and yet it’s true
I’ve believe I’ve learned a thing or two
I hug a bit tighter and care a bit more
Birthdays come faster then they did before
More people are gone that were once in my life
And for forty years plus I’ve been Mother and Wife
I reflect on the decades – of so long ago
And upon my own image where they’re starting to show
Yet in the mirror sometimes I still see
The child of the sixties that I used to be
As PEACE AND LOVE grow old with me………
Only yesterday I was twenty three
Young relaxed and worry free
With endless decades in front of me.
When did all those years go by?
Seems they passed in the blink of an eye
And in the place of youthful glow
An older face began to show
Through tri-focal lenses I see the past
The memories still holding fast
The treasured moments strong and clear
So many gone – I wish were here
Happy times and carefree days
The sixties in a “purple haze”
Peace and love without a care
Nostalgia often takes me there.
The seventies – I found my heart
The kids were born and life would start
The chaos and the blissful mess
That put my patience to the test
The eighties – busy as can be
Everyone is needing me
A working Mom who’s on the run
Turning 40 – not much fun
Upon reflection of way back when
Wish I were as old as I thought I was then
The 90’s would take us far away
To Texas where we are today
The century turned and the future was here
I began to push 60 which filled me with fear
Technology boomed and Facebook did too
Long ago friends became friends anew
Now empty nesters – kids are all grown
With lives and families of their own
Medicare would takes it’s place
Beside the lines upon my face.
Someone said “grow old with me – the best of life is yet to be”
I’m not so sure and yet it’s true
I’ve believe I’ve learned a thing or two
I hug a bit tighter and care a bit more
Birthdays come faster then they did before
More people are gone that were once in my life
And for forty years plus I’ve been Mother and Wife
I reflect on the decades – of so long ago
And upon my own image where they’re starting to show
Yet in the mirror sometimes I still see
The child of the sixties that I used to be
As PEACE AND LOVE grow old with me………