Experience

Once I was a boy an innocent to life and my role in it

This world played my game and anyone a clown or foil for myself

The harmless affairs and no one seemed to care for any meaning

My life was my own The debt I paid I paid it only to myself

The unseeing youth how can it be so shallow and short sighted

These years passed me by to realize the folly of these unripe years

Now I am a man I realize

My unworldly sins pained many lives

Yet I heard heard with ears that wouldn't listen

And still I watched and I saw with blinkered eyes

But with age the conscience slowly dawns and bonds of duty gently tied

All my sins seen through now there is experience and recollecting act in virgin guise

Master inner voices making the choices

Once I could rebel and consequences then had no reflection

And I am a man And I am bound by adult age discretion now