Into The Wind Went Time

Long ago a baby cried,

a baby laughed,

a baby spoke,

a baby walked.

Suddenly, like a breathing wind,

the baby was gone.

Rock and Roll,

the Internet,

flashy clothes, cool friends,

all part of teenage years;

that quickly, like a breathing wind,

the teenager was gone.

College rocked,

beer parties, marijuana,

hot guys, hot girls,

part-time jobs,

and 21, now legal.

Suddenly, like a breathing wind,

the world awaits your struggle.

Forty hours a week,

a wife, two kids,

paying bills,

watching new lives flourish,

and now, thirty years seems so far away.

like a breathing wind, it’s forever gone.

Kids grown, with kids of their own;

you and your better half,

alone in a huge house.

Life starts, life ends,

life goes on constantly,

somewhere, so it seems,

but like a breathing wind,

age sweeps over us all.

Fall leaves skip over brown grass,

no one watching them drift

on a cold, wintry morning.

There, dug deep in the ground,

a granite stone with two names.

Like a breathing wind,

Dust to dust,

And the cycle never ends.