Next Time . . . . . .

If you knew the chain of events that awaited you,
the relationships, events, dramas - what would you do?
Some may say that it doesn't matter - rather now
is more important, but for interest I'm asking 'how.'

A school friend of mine committed suicide at fifteen,
what a waste of life to gain sexual gratification; 
in your prime at forty, maybe no longer so sporty,
but in hindsight, perhaps you could have been less naughty!

You made sixty five, not retiring like the old days,
some not grown up, men looking at the parting of the ways;
in your old age, you may regret the choices you made,
you might have had diamonds for all the things you paid.

Someone made an outrageous comment: 'Thirty years wasted,'
that's bad - at least be thankful for all the good things you had.