YOUNG TROUBLE
We don’t pay much attention to the elderly.
Even though they probably know more than us
about what it all truly means.
Even when they’ve done something stellar
like helped win a war fifteen presidents ago
or built the first car
or outlived their entire families
with no special diet or exercise routine to speak of.
Even then we don’t give them much of our time
or try keep them around
close enough so we can listen.
Maybe it’s because they talk so slow
and move so slow
and we’re busy living so fast
scrambling about and trying to fit it all in
burning our youth at both ends
so by the time we get to their age
we’ll have all kinds of fantastic answers
to all kinds of amazing questions.
Fantastic answers to amazing questions…
that no one
will pay much attention to
at all.
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