As a Child

As a child As a child, we live day to day In the sunshine, or rain, we play Living free, in a careless way As a teen, we expand the field For only friends, a smile will yield Emotions; the onion is peeled As young adults, we need to work First love; an exciting new perk Still selfish, but not quite a jerk In our twenties, a full time job An apartment, and such a slob Oh my, will these bills ever stop Then thirty, we meet someone new They change everything that we do And soon enough, the baby comes due When forties came, along with debt So much more I didn’t expect Living great! Paycheck, to paycheck At fifty! The kids, leave for school Working hard or just being cool You pray, that they won’t be a fool (like me) Now sixty! Panic, starts to hit Arthritis, grays and other **** And memory! The freaking pits Seventies! I loved the seventies And a great time in the eighties too I was still young and single and…. And…. Wait! What were we talking about??? © 2017 Jeffrey Spencer