Twenty Two

She looks at me, tears in her eyes

Ignorant of how life could so quickly pass by.

We share the same pains of today, wishing everything could stay the same.

As it was, with the closeness of home,

With our friends near, so we never feel alone.

As silver lines my scalp, I watch her turn grey and eventually fade away –

Twenty two was nothing but new.

Young and naive, to what life would cost me.

If I’d only have known what I know now,

Regretting the wrinkles I grow on my brow.

With the worries of life and the todo’s of tomorrow,

Twenty two knew nothing of life’s sorrows.

But learned them quickly a year too late –

Is it too late? To turn back and warn of the closing of heavens gates?

The betrayal around the corner, and the whiplash that time so easily takes –

Yes. So, I will greet another year with forgiveness and love,

All the things twenty two, could have had more of.