Years Have Sped By

Poems

Years

Where do the years vanish?

Where do swiftly fly the days?

Can years merely wander afar . . .

Or-be retained at a distant shore? . . .

 

Does life stretch, like the longest span?

Do the years in circles turn?

Still . . . our lives are with years laden . . .

What's once passed, can no longer return . . .

 

Now it comes to mind,

That to stride back is an impossibility . . .

What's gone -- toss like feathers to the wind.

Utilize your creative powers fully . . .

 

Do not carry your deeds to the great beyond . .

In this world, see that humanity its bounty gets . . .

Make of life what is righteous and good . . .

Give it thought, and by all means -- a precedent set! . . .

 

While our life is heavily overladen, --

And our years do not in circles turn,

Life stretches like the longest span . . .

What has once gone -- will never more return!