If Only

I'm older now but none the wiser, a victim of my youth scrounging in the darkness searching for my truths. Depression too often set in the hero lost in the world's din, despite the times, the raging revolution history and lessons pass without solutions, only every unkept resolution. Looking back some sixty-plus years retrieving laughter and every tear time passages have lead us to here, same old, same old questions without answers political strategies, senatorial tap dancers. If only time could teach lessons well learned but humanity is resistant, reality spurned we each see time passages in different lights some voices raised freedom, justice and equality others hide in their mediocrity. If only time could flow in slow repeats rewind and pause the lessons fleet open wide the ears the eyes, the heart, the mind generations recognizing we have one life to live for eliminating hate and fear and war, our never more.