Saturday, June 6, 2020

Age

Fifteen and the guy on the football team
Seventeen looking for a fight 
Eighteen, getting drunk legally
21 ways to sing 21 Guns 
26 and looking for love 
32 in the blink of an eye 
35, insatiable wanderlust leaking out of every crack
In the heart that was broken at age 9
Someday it's 40 but you're not alone 
At 50, you're sleeping soundly 
When you reach 68, you wanna stop this train
Yearning to be a teen again
Until at 80, you can't see
And by the time you turn 100
You return to being a microscopic cog in a macroscopic machine

The Bilge Master

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