Is Time On Your Side
When young folks, say, “Time’s on my side,” they’re right.
Fulfilling opportunities await
the teens and twenty-somethings who delight
in knowing that their future can be great.
When thirty-somethings change the path they chose
ten years before, time still is on their side,
but there’s a sense of urgency. Each knows
constraints of passing time can’t be denied.
Some restless middle-aged ones haven’t found
what they want most. Their chances to fulfill
their dreams are fading. Doubts and fears abound.
Hope hovers between faltering and nil.
The gray-haired, discontented ones who dwell
on goals not met because time wouldn’t wait
for them would be the perfect ones to tell
the young, “Don’t linger till it is too late.”
Date: December 1, 2019
Contest Title: Your Best New Poem
Sponsor: Emile Pinet
Copyright © Janice Canerdy | Year Posted 2019
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