Splash, skip
jump, flip
stick your tongue out
pout your lip
Grow, play
run, pray
getting taller
every day
Chores, toys
birthday joys,
making friends with
girls and boys
School, sports
jeans, shorts
staying focused
out of sorts
College years,
drinking beers,
childish anger,
grown-up fears.
Career, life
children, wife
Partners team to
deal with strife
Kids adults now,
partners old,
summer years
turn into gold.
Partner leaves,
one remains, wipes away
the teary stains
sits, porch
love’s torch,
lonely heart is
feeling scorched.
silence, loud
family crowd,
grandson gently
pulls the shroud
Broke hearts
tears flow
in the ground
they watch you go.
end of days,
end of rhyme.
Long Road,
short time.
Beyond Panic 