Age's Scorching Sun
I’m trapped beneath age’s scorching sun
Tossed by indecisive winds
I walk alone in the chilled night
Lost in shadows misguiding light
Fortress of adulthood shaky
Held in sage
By apparitions of careless days
I must find the combination
Swing open ancient memories gate
Grant my brief escape
So that I might touch a truth
I juggled so carelessly with the hands of youth
Treasures adolescent spoiled
Plundered wealth with no regard
Blind to priceless treasures owned
Exit treasure forever gone
Day’s I ran without the weight of age
Seemed endless summer
Summer play
All down hill past thoughts deep well
No time to drink
Though parents yell
Skipping stone this young boys song
Fresh pond
Young life
No wakes have yet descended upon
Decisions made for pleaser only
To elusive to be trapped by lonely
Deaf as elders babble warning
Blind to tides in change
Curtain falls
Orchestra stops
Eternal play youth is not
Place on stage not where you thought
The lines that once flowed like blood through veins
Sound empty strained
Almost tasting
Almost sensing
Silent moments wasted grieving
Almost hearing
Almost feeling
Almost
Almost the same as none
I try to warn my growing son
Eluding me
He is on the run
From emotion to emotion
Stone to stone
Too soon he will understand my concern
As the road he travels
Becomes not so long
To quick comes the final gun
To quick the rise of a different sun
Youth’s giddy moments glowing
Turn your head the moments gone
Memories will linger on
Howling in the nights loneliest moments
Shadows melt under some day’s warnings
Heaviness grows
Roses turn to weed that choke
This new sun finds me faded old
Deaf to youth’s blaring song
Sometimes nostalgic breezes bring in a drift
Shadows ghost ships
Essence
Enchantments
Enchanting
Taunting
Teasing
Without revealing
Lyrics owned by young hearts dreaming
Dreaming without ceasing
Easy for young ones scheming
Copyright © Misty Flowers | Year Posted 2008
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