Where Did Time Go

How did time slip by so fast, and add all these years to me;

It seems like only yesterday, when I was young and climbing trees!

Building snowmen in the winter’s fall, throwing snowballs in gleeful play;

Taking long fun trips with Mom and Dad, to places far away!

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Summer then would come to end, and school again would start;

Class bells ringing, books in hand, girls that sped the beat my heart!

Pep rallies for our football team, games on Friday night;

Dances in the gymnasium, holding sweetheart’s hands so tight!

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Learning how to drive a car, my parents so kind had been;

For a Plymouth Belvedere they bought me, when I was just sixteen!

A steady girl in my senior year, a little porcelain doll;

For over a year we danced and loved, two hearts were so enthralled!

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At my high school graduation, were two hundred smiling kids;

With a few of our old teachers, who were glad of us be rid!

Three months of funs’ frivolity, then college bound was I;

But after one term I quickly dropped out, which made my parents want to cry!

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After eight lean months of  hustling pool, a young coin dealer I became;

For numismatics was my true passion, so the profession quite easily came!

It was a great time for investors, so the cash came flying in;

I went to conventions, we did business, met girls that made my head spin!

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The rest is all a blur to me, a fortune I made and lost;

Children, divorces, a rolling stone, never gathers any moss!

Finally I’m happily married, seventy-two but still feel like a kid;

Oh, if only we could be young again, and fifty years us both could rid!

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A Tanka In Summation

A sagacious man

His life coming to an end

Lamented these words

“Is it not a pity that

Youth is wasted on the young”