When We Were Young Poem by Jan Oskar Hansen

When we`re young

When you are young, say, twenty-five you, say, things like
I hope not to be old not meet girls have sex, with a group of friends.
we didn`t have any, sitting drinking
There used to be five of us we were at the top of the world
death was so far away.
Then the group shrank, one becomes a Jehovah witness,
one became a drifter two got married I was drinking alone
and somehow live was no longer glorious.
They are all dead now, but for some reason or as punishment
I lived on, although in another country.
Yet, I have no religious hang up, I believe that in death.