Seems Like Yesterday

Inspired by the song, “Yesterday When I Was Young”, by Roy Clark

They flew by so very quickly, these years that I have lived;
Seventy-four, and now remembering them, such happiness me gives!
I’m still a first-grade schoolboy, Miss Getter teaches me;
Peppermint candies for the studious, I quickly learn to read!
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In the sixth grade, I’m eleven, I meet my first heart throb;
In the eighth, I get Bar Mitzvahed, and do a bang-up job!
The next year, I’m in High School, four years I’ll ne’er forget;
I meet my little sweetheart, so very close we get!
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Off to College then for four months, the scene just not for me;
Hustle pool for a little while, then a coin dealer do I be!
I meet a girl before I’m twenty, elope in just two weeks;
Two children and five years later, we climb our final peak!
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It takes me till the fourth wife, to finally find “The One”;
My Soulmate for forever, my renaissance begun!
We’ve never had any children, I had four from marriages last;
Our babies were our two doggies, who so sadly now have passed!
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Just yesterday I was playing Hopscotch, and singing in the rain;
But today, I am an old man, living my last refrain!
Where did all the time go, this express train to old age;
As I write this book about my past life, I fear the final page!
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                           Once I was so young
                    Those days echo in my Soul
                        As my years now wane