Ten Again

Scott Whitby, 2020

I was ten

So secure

Felt happy

Safe for sure

Then fifteen

All upside down

Nothing good

Except the frown

Turned twenty

Life mends

Not right again tho'

But finding friends

Twenty five

Partly man

Learning life

Best I can

Thirty now

Path is clear

Overcoming

Soon a wife so dear

Thirty five

Became a dad

Can I do it

And not be bad?

Forty came next

Then forty five

Kids half grown

Feeling so alive

Then fifty

Still do what I can

Start to make plans

To be a dying man

This second half

I'll do less wrong

I'll pick people up

Make them strong

Would like be a hundred

And if health will hold

It'll be ok

To get that old

If I get there

Hope kids say

What a daddy!

I'll do it that way

But if I don't

And my life finds end

At least I found how it feels

To be ten again