Youth and Old Age

YOUTH AND OLD AGE Get off your galloping horse of youth’s impressions Stop looking down upon old age with contempt You are still on the planes of doubt and uncertainties Having not yet made in life any real attempt. Not even a hill of problems have you ascended Neither have you faced a serious thunderstorm How is it possible for you ever to be assuming Without experience your elders to reform? You better stop and think for a single moment All those whose heads have turned white or gray How many hills of harm and mountains of troubles Have they been through and climbed to this day? Your youth, a spectacular time, for you to enjoy Dreams to make of what you would wish to assure Sadly though the future for you a possibility is only For everyone knows that nothing in life is for sure. So the preferable thing you ought to be doing Is to listen carefully to these experienced old folks For better, it is to learn from mistakes they made Than knowledge to gain from your very own faults! © Demetrios Trifiatis 30 NOVEMBER 2013