There Was A Time Poem by Tom O'Brien

THERE WAS A TIME…

There was a time which was Much better lived than told There was a time we were much younger then And growing up held more sway than growing old And then one day all that growing was done And the long slide down that Imaginary hill had begun…
I've slid, lost my hat, what's worse, I've gotten fat, But if, at the end of it all, I could choose,
I'd say it's been a good slide; I'd go again-
Through every bump and cut and bruise.
And I still reminisce now, of life back then.