Your first breath <br />your first step <br />your first words <br />your first love <br />your first fight <br />your first broken heart <br />and don't forget <br />your first job <br />that small check <br />by sunday morning the money's all spent. <br />Remember the first freedom from your parents <br />remember always being late with the damn rent <br />remember all the friends around you... <br />but don't forget when it was just me and you <br />don't remember me? ... <br />look in the nearest mirror <br />you'll see.... <br />one moment you're a young man.... <br />you've got the world by the 'short and curlies' <br />you have best friends that would take bullets for you <br />and you for them. <br />Indestructable. <br />you're the stuff of local legend.... <br />the life of the party <br />then....the largest fingers in the universe snap <br />- - without the slightest sound... <br />and now here you are <br />the same <br />yet changed. <br />Not all of those friends are there anymore <br />but you're not really there for them either <br />and you're not sure if you even care... <br />yet still you feel a certain void <br />and you often wonder if they do too. <br />You have your whole life to look forward to <br />but you realize <br />time really does fly by like all the 'grown-ups' used to say. <br />... you have a great lust for life..... <br />but like everyone else you can't fully understand the strange slow quickness of it all..... <br />so you decide not to let one more precious moment pass you by <br />then you look into the nearest mirror <br />and mouth two words of advice..... <br /> <br /> .......''Don't Blink.''<br /><br />Grant Thomas<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/don-t-blink-2/
