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About This Poem
If I Knew Then
If I knew then what I know now
You've often heard that said
A truer axiom has never been uttered
It's so easy for youth to be led
If I knew then what I know now
Might have changed a thing or two
They say youth is wasted on the young
I certainly believe that's true
If I knew then what I know now
Could've saved those days being wasted
With childish games and petty ambitions
Before real life had been tasted
If I knew then what I know now
Should've listened to those smarter minds
That warned that when we finally matured
We'd regret being foolish and blind
If I knew then what I know now
I look back with a few regrets
That I wasted a valuable part of my life
My teen years I'd like to forget
But in spite of it all, I made it through
I try to show today's youth how
Not to repeat the mistakes I made
If I knew then what I know now
© Jack Ellison 2012
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