Foolishly Spent

I never knew how precious time was until it was too late.

Never to hold youth
My skin dry and worn with experience
Colored with regret
Of the wasted time I foolishly spent
Wishing I were older


Colored with regret
Of the wasted time I foolishly spent
Wishing I were older
Aching to capture
Those supple green moments of joy


Aching to capture
Those supple green moments of joy
When the sun warmed me in the grass
And I knew time was eternal

Author's Note

Youth is just a moment, but we never knew it then. Did we?

Reviews

[Ravenskald]

True, but I wouldn't change the big stuff
tweaks here and there maybe
And more of some stuff and less of the other ..
One thing that strikes me the most having hit
some of the "My skin dry and worn with experience "
Is how some have no idea what "X" is like .
And they quote a book , a piece of research or what the papers currently say.
Experience is unique, does that make it time not wasted, plus I would have missed the fun bits
if I'd not wsted the time and they were precious ;-)
R
sorry burbling again ......

[Adrian K. Smith]

We may have been told about it, we may have read about it, we may have seen it on TV and heard it on the radio; but we never knew it. It was never something that would took ownership of in the least. We were young and we were forever, it would always be this way. Then at some point, as you have so deftly presented for us here, we realize that we are not forever. Our youth lost, never to be found again, even if we seek to pursue all that we did in youth; it is never the same. Well written...

[angelina neves]

:) we never believe anything unless we "experience" it in someway!
Lovely!