None Ever Come To Stay

With them go my joys and sorrows this life spent chasing dreams The grandiose philosophy built of my lofty hopes and schemes

Scout and I 

The time trickles by unnoticed

our moments fade away

While their coming and their going

pass us by day to day

 

Each new morn comes by to meet me

as nothing seems to last

The thoughts of youth just melt away

as all become the past

 

With them go my joys and sorrows

this life spent chasing dreams

The grandiose philosophy

of lofty hopes and schemes

 

Younger days when I once believed

I'll sleep when I am dead

Now I feed the mind on learning

I still keep those fires fed

 

Why can't we inherit wisdom

pass along what we know

Given benefit of insight

might help our species grow

 

The generations march to war

pounding drums of glory

Saying it will happen no more

it's the same sad story

 

Gales form around each new child's life

what they don't know be true

The winds foretell what future holds

oh if they only knew

 

The sands of time keep flowing on

our lives to pass away

Some are coming, some are going

none ever come to stay

Fair usage assumed 

Author's Note

We will never make it to enlightenment at the rate we are going. Men just don't live long enough to learn from their mistakes.

Reviews

[ron s king]

A fine write and with a great message. I only grew when I started writing, in that case we're on the same journey. Take care... Ron.

[mags]

Wow, that is an amazing write. It flows beautifully. Although I enjoy reading free verse and how other people write I still like to write in rhyming verse myself. Each to their own! I love your poem. Mags.

[Marie]

I don't know why the human race doesn't learn from the mistakes made in the past. It should be so obvious.

[Frieda P]

Live, learn, love, it's all about moments, they are what life is all about however brief they might be, If we had to live long enough to learn from our mistakes, I think we'd need several lifetimes Tate...nicely pen'd.

[TrimarcoRansome]

The sands of time keep flowing on
our lives to pass away
Some are coming, some are going
none ever come to stay...
How very true! lovely poem, Tate.

[Blue Belle]

Interesting and insightful read.

[Nayan]

Oh! I have always felt this that each of our kind, every youth goes through the same cycles of mistake-full learning before he/she realizes that these truths have already been learned through experience by the generation that preceded.

[Vincent Esprit FMI]

If but for one moment we could freeze this "one moment of time" W.Houston.....but again maybe we do in our memories! Thanks tate for this journey! You continue to express brilliantly humanity's experiences that seem to collide and find life in your pen! Again thanks buddy!

Vincent

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