Time Doesn't Stand Still

 

By Bud Lemire

Time doesn't stand still, because we age
As it moves ahead, each life's chapter we engage
Sometimes I'm taken back, into a memory in a song
Thinking I'm back there, yet I knew I wasn't all along

I see a singer back then, that I use to listen to
Today he's old and gray, and I think “what happened to you?”
I look in the mirror, and think “who is that old man?”
Reality bites, but it's the way of each life span

Sometimes I think, I've lived a lifetime of many years
Each chapter that I lived, brought happiness and tears
From it all, I'm happy for who I became
I'm still me, and yet I'm not the same

Others do it too, they think I'm the boy I use to be
Never realizing, they're thinking of the younger me
I'm not the only one, who gets lost in a memory
Sometimes we stay there, and it's hard to break free

Even though time doesn't stand still, this I do know
Through the journey from the past to the future, I grow
You age and change, as time moves ahead
Doing your best to go, wherever you are led

©Feb 15, 2025 Bud Lemire

                       Author Note:

As humans, the years and time makes us older.
Through these changes, we learn and grow
and changes happen within ourselves.
Nothing ever stays the same.

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