Over years gone by <br />I cast my mind's eye <br />Times and places <br />Well loved faces <br />Lessons learned <br />Trusts earned <br />Blood, sweat and tears <br />Punctuate the years <br />Between laughs and love <br />And guidance from above <br />On rock solid friends <br />My stability depends <br />Yet I have real independance <br />With no thought of vengeance <br />To those that do me wrong <br />I sing a different song <br />Life's too short for 'What ifs' <br />I revel in it's gifts <br />Addicted to my quality of life <br />I minimise the strife <br />Driven by the pursuit of pleasure <br />I taste and feel the value of leisure <br />Cash is not the guiding force <br />Without riches my life takes it's course <br />The simple pleasures satisfy me <br />Most of the best things in life are free <br />Conformity be hung <br />I'll be forever young <br />With the benefit of experience <br />I develop my existence <br />Forty years gone <br />Bring the next forty on <br />I have expectations <br />Of unknown destinations <br />Of people that inspire <br />Of unknown desire <br />Of new things to see <br />And also to be <br />My joie de vivre shows <br />And on it goes.....<br /><br />Esra Sloblock<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/40/
