A Long Journey and Very Sad Look Back

A Long Journey And Very Sad Look Back Looking back at those youthful follies invited Days of sweet glory and thoughts of being knighted Time sends back its memories of the lively ghost My crazy younger self, that all too willing host Life has raced through distant extended middle years With its love, joy, misery, pains and saddest tears Longings bereft of Love's satisfying reprieves Brave daredevil fools taunted Fate, were thick as thieves Then time slapped us from slumber with its mighty knocks No bluffs of bravado could destroy these new shocks Midnight dreams remind us of death and true love lost No lying can convince, wild-times were worth the cost Youthful folly serves a purpose we may not know For with each knock down, our wisdom began to grow Robert J. Lindley , 2-15-2017 Sonnet, Lin 12/12 Syllables Per Line: 12 12 12 12 0 12 12 12 12 0 12 12 12 12 0 12 12 Total # Syllables: 168 Total # Words: 123 Note: This sonnet was inspired by a conversation I had this morn with an old friend from my youth. He had just learned of my mother's recent death and called to give condolences. He started speaking about the many very wild times we had over 40 years ago. After thinking about that conversation most of today, this sonnet started forming in my head. With the sad truth being, those wild young times were folly and not a positive regardless of how we may choose to remember/romanticize them.