Just Passing Through

Age crept upon me like a quiet thief Reminding me of time's silent passing Another Autumn another dead leaf The moment's concern seems everlasting To conjure the year my mind was aware A child's brain with its singular thought Where tomorrow was far a dream to share and childhood was playful minutes sought As joy and anguish scroll through my mind They remind me of adult worlds of games When turmoil was history, made us all blind and our tears were shed on a wall of names Dreamed a thousand dreams on a foreign shore Saw them washed away a history's captor