Twenty In Twenty Poem by Pradip Chattopadhyay

Twenty In Twenty



when i see the youthful faces
i feel a bitter regret
curse how time crazily races
rue things for which i'm late.

my youth now seems wasn't there
or was just a fleeting span
fate dealt me a blow unfair
made me too fast old man.

if only the years did roll back
if time travel wasn't a fancy
if only was laid back the past track
i would've loved to be twenty.

why it's such i didn't care
let twenty fly too fast past me
why that year if was very much there
i didn't lock it to be forever twenty.

twenty at twenty seemed absurd an age
a fabulous but unreal mirage
it was the year i passed out college
twenty did i ever have that age.

twenty when came too fast it went
survives in the now twenty's face
for me no year an imagined moment
i curse how years quickly race.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Susy Evelyne 05 February 2014

A poem that speaks for many of us. How time crazily races... Did you know the French call twenty 'le bel age'? I spent my twentieth birthday on the top of a Swiss mountain - heaven!

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Valsa George 04 February 2014

Why all of a sudden, we all feel weighed down by the weight of years.....? These days I read many poems bemoaning the speedy passage of time when many express the desire to curl back to the days of childhood and youth! With you I too 'curse how years quickly race'! Great read! !

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Kanav Justa 03 February 2014

i want my teen age back too, , , , you laid down the feelings of each one of us, , ,

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Anil Kumar Panda 03 February 2014

wish i could go back to my teens too.lovely drop.liked it.

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