Sweet pitiful youth! Why deceive this way? <br /> You clothe with pitfalls, we carry along the way. <br /> <br /> You look toward your elders and say to yourself, <br /> "Why are they changing, in spite of themselves?" <br /> <br /> You spring forth, run and romp in the sun, <br /> Ignoring the rumble and thunder to come. <br /> <br /> The decades go by and one day you glimpse, <br /> The stranger inside you and laugh at its strength. <br /> <br /> The stranger is gaining your will won't endure, <br /> At last youth must give way, to the stranger that is you.<br /><br />Eleanor L. Cain<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-stranger-within/
