Exchanged For Youth
I will count no more those wasted tears
as gambled wages spent
for all my days in toiled years
were worthy of every cent
It's sure, not all my dreams came true
and love it came and went
but for all the trials and all the moods
like a staircase it mapped my assent
For in wisdom gained abides these three
reflection, limitation and experience
through alterations I couldn't foresee
they crushed or bred resilience
Reflection remains the wisest call
where limitation magnifies humility
experience is the worst of all
bitterness can be self-defeating hostility
As a child born to a wandering sea
I board the ship of pearl
and bind myself to reflections plea
as ties of error unfurl
Before me now is the cost revealed
wisdom has taught me many a truth
It's sunless crypt has come unsealed
and taken in exchange my youth
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