DM Babbit Poet Free verse

Lifetime

Lifetimes

More than one lifetime
	is lived in 
	and by a life.
We share our lives with a multitude of people
	and each bond or connection is different
	in depths or shallows of varying degrees.
The lives our parents give us are short lived
	because we too soon grow
	and severe the ties that kept us dependent.
We return later having realized
	all we missed in that separation
	and search for it to return in its simplicity.
Adolescence is the rebellious years
	spent in finding ourselves
	regretfully, some of us never do.
Forty is the new twenty,
	the next senior generation on its downward spiral
	that believes itself to be almost ageless
	still searching for it.
The lifetimes at that age seem endless
	always filled with something to learn
	to reach out and take hold of.
Pushing seventy, wondering how I got here,
	hoping it is the new fifty
	my lifetime is gone too fast.
Give me more time, a decade or two more years
	for I see, there is so much I’d like to do
	remaining in wait in this lifetime.

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