Your eyes record a different world than mine,
Without my music, books, or time.
Declining years loom ahead,
Your face lights with futuristic hope instead.
Joking, you say, go back to days long past,
But no return would I gladly clasp.
Childhood bittersweet,
Adolescence confusion reaped.
Love and marriage replaced dreamland,
Hard work on every hand.
Lonely passages and dangerous curves,
This present life, opportunity serves.
So many have gone before,
Some certain few stand at the door.
Tree branches end in buds to bloom,
No matter the change, it comes too soon.
Young eyes with wonder see and decide,
Old vision dims with ancient grief abide.
Hardly knowing what you don’t know,
Ever and anon, it’s ever so.
Look and see,
Live and be.
One day plighted,
Where life united.
Love dares,
Vision shares.
A. K. Frailey
As a teacher with a degree in Elementary Education who has taught in big cities and small towns, Ann Frailey homeschooled all of her children. She manages her rural homestead with her kids and their numerous critters, authors books, and writes a Friday blog alternating between short stories and her My Road Goes Ever On series. Put Your Mind in a Better Place—Entertainment for Life