Age and Time

While some grow wiser with age,

Others do not.

While some age gracefully,

Others… not so much.

Though we all age differently,

There’s this fear,

Of growing older.

It’s not necessarily the aging itself,

That’s always the scariest part.

It’s the realization that all these years,

Have passed by you.

It’s that moment when,

Suddenly you look back and think,

“Where has the time gone?”

This isn’t part of the poem, but one of my favorite Pink Floyd songs is “Time”, and writing this reminded me of this part of the song:

“Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain

You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today

And then one day you find ten years have got behind you

No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”