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Remember the innocent days of youth Our smiles would brighten up the evening sky When we believed in honesty and truth And swore we were never going to die Dancing happily across life's green fields Feeling the sun's kiss upon our faces When we didn't need protection or shields And laughed about lacking social graces When the world was ours to roam and explore The give and take now an integral part We had no clue of what would lay in store Yet everyday was a thrilling new start To see the world again through a child's eyes Crystal clear without deception or guise Ah yes many wonderful childhood days All too soon they are lost forevermore Remembered only in a passing haze Washed away like sand on a distant shore What is left behind is reality As we seek and search for our place within But with such diminished vitality Uncomfortable now in our own skin For like the four seasons changing our view We don't recognize who we have become So we try to go on and muddle through And to our fears we try not to succumb Yearning for those blissful days so long gone When each new morn held rainbows in its dawn Now life has settled into a routine As we strive hard to try and forge ahead Like a constantly rewinding still scene On new ground now we barely ever tread These middle years like slow mental climbers Preparing us for when we do grow old When we will be considered old-timers And won't have to fit a desired mold Through the aging returns freedom once more As responsibility slips away And we start to feel as we did before Before our happy childhoods went astray Oh the changing cycle, from birth to death Filling each day with promise on its breath Rising expectantly to greet each morn Knowing that soon time will be ours no more Our thoughts between earth and heaven are torn As we battle through our internal war For to leave all we have loved is so hard Yet we yearn to see the world up above From our time on earth, our souls are quite scarred Needing to be touched once more by great love In silent dreams we see the promised land Peace now settling in our hearts and minds As time slips through life's hourglass like sand And our memory so slowly unwinds We ride the chariot to take us home In heaven our souls will now freely roam
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