I Wish I Was Still Young Poem by Musa Gift Masombuka

I WISH I WAS STILL YOUNG.

I wish I was still young,
so many years back then.
When everything was an ahem,
and my life was a promise solemn.

When were I could just weep,
and my demands they will keep.
They didn't have to sweep,
'cause I was their priority.

Back then when life was sweet,
and everything was not at my wit.
My mind was still soft
and everything I saw attracted me.

I wish I was young,
Back to those days with the friends
When we didn't care what does the future looks like.
We didn't know we were gonna be alone.
We thought that life was at the top-end.

Indeed it was,
Cause we were in the palms of our parents.
They were our operators
and we were their systems.

Look now here I am,
Where are my friends now?
Everyone is facing the world,
and indeed with a different angle.

Here I am now,
I'm my own boss.
I steer my own life,
in my own car alone.

My parents are waving goodbye goodbye.
For they say its enough!
And truly it is enough.
I have been with them enough.

Here I am,
Experiencing the taste of life,
and as I wonder with my mind twisted,
Is this how life looks like?

As I wonder and ask myself,
did they suffer this much to make it to my satisfactory?
I dropped tears of pain,
For I am sorry for them.


Poem by: © Musa Gift Masombuka 2015.
Dedicated to Ronny Mosobohli Mosima.