We Yearn For

We yearn for what has gone from us forever for youth that will not return to us again
But of the past we always have our memories for as long as the gift of memory we retain
The years of childhood were the best for many the age of innocence a marvellous thing
But the innocence we've lost has gone from us forever though to the memories of such to we do cling
Memories of the young friends that you used to play with you do not know where they might be today
Like you do some live in another Country and did many of them in the hometown stay?
And perhaps some of them are lost to life forever to the Reaper of lives eventually we fall
On that way we are no different to other life forms we are born to die and death is for us all
We live in the now and that is all that should matter to us though to the past our thoughts do often stray
The memories a lifetime with us do linger the what was does die hard it seems that way
Age creeps on us youth does not stay with us forever we soon grow old as victims of time's decay
Though some do try to hide age in cosmetics and in tints and hair dyes do cover their gray
We yearn for what has gone from us forever though the now is what matters since the past is in the past
The hours and days and weeks do go so quickly and our biological clocks on us keep ticking fast.