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Rated: E · Poetry · Writing · #1563343
Time has changed, the book of life rearranged but I took a page.
                               
I remember the tireless days of young.
                                       
Laying in grassy fields all day,
                                       
Ignoring the school bell that rung.
                                       
                               

Walking in no direction at all.
                                       
Talking ten years ahead of our time.
                                       


Hiding behind the massive pine.
                                       
No one could find us in our mind.
                                       
                               

Growing up together in competition.
                                       
Life becomes such a repetition.
                                       
                               

Walking the mall in a pair of two,
                                       
Through the crowds of faces we flew.
                                       
                               

Relying on each other to hold our ground,
                                       
We were all we needed.
                                       
                               

I’ve learned something about growing older,
                             
What was many hands on either shoulder,
                                    
Warm to the touch now seem much colder.
                             
Once down the street, now unfamiliar.
                                       
                             

And that one final hand tries so hard to hold longer,
                                       
But a great division happens in life with time.
                                       
                               

Left with no one to stand my ground,
                                       
To tell me to come out when I'm lost,
                                       

                                       
As time goes on we forget who we are.
                                       
Blind folded eyes cannot see,          
                                       


The giant pine tree,
                                       
The endless walks,
                             

Watching the stars,
                                       
The stupid talks.
                                       

Laughing all night,
                                    
Skipping rocks.
                                       


Time is too precious,
                                       
Consumed by work.
                                       
                               

Something in us matures,
                                       
At the make of a dollar.
                                       

Get rid of that t-shirt,
                                       
Fold down that collar.          
                                       
                               

Something in us dies,
                                       
At the make of a dollar.
                                    
                               

Ability to find that innocence that we lost,
                                       
Our friends move away,
                                       
Cant decide if its night or day.
                                       
                               

Now 20 years older I've set my sails
                               
A days responsibilities find me getting my mail
                                       
I heard a sound far in the forest,
                               
My curiosity did prevail.
                                       
                             

I took the long way as we did when I was young.
                                       
I lost track of time to pet the neighbors dog.
                                       
Sang that same old song I’ve always sung.
                                       
                               

The hours meshed into one ambiguous lump.
                                       
I journeyed to our old childhood spot upon arriving I did see
                                       
That old pine tree once tall now just a stump.
                                       
                               

It had been cut down to extend an oh so glorious parking lot.
                                       
And it was at this time I realized this marked an important age.
                                       
Time has changed, the book of life rearranged but I took a page.
                                       
                               

To never forget is my duty and ability to every extent.
                                       
Spend your life wisely, I consider mine well spent.
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