REFLECTION

By Peter Woodgate 

On looking back across the years,

the excitement, the frowns, smiles, and tears,

you wonder where “Old Time” has gone

a mere swift heartbeat in life’s song.

Experiences, without the knowledge,

that aging brings us and the courage,

to make decisions for the good,

not selfish, just because we could.

For there’s a matter of concern,

life is short, yet we must learn

to pass this advice onto those

who carry the torch as wisdom grows,

and hopefully one-day mankind

will have reached a higher mind,

where love, and kindness, is the way

and thoughtfulness is here to stay.

I’d like to think it all worth-while

for those whose lives have been a trial

and man must reach out from this pyre

and like the phoenix soar much higher.

 

Copyright Peter Woodgate