Retrospective

Retrospective

© by Bud Lemire on Jan 25, 2016

Take a retrospective

Of every day you live

See how far life's taken you

Think of all the people you knew

Friends and lovers, they come and go

But aren't you happy, that you came to know

People close, have touched you the most

Passing into spirit, they've become a ghost

Gone from the physical, yet in spirit they are near

They watch your journey, as you travel here

A retrospective of all that you've learned

A lifetime achievement that is well earned

For all the bumps that were in the road

There was always some help to carry that load

Friends along life's highway, had come along

To guide you right, and shared their life's song

In photos, in journals, or even in a poem

A retrospective of all places, that I have called home

Are shown in everything that I do

The love I share openly with you

A retrospective of my life here on Earth

The years that taught me, beginning with my birth

When we look back on where we started and where we

are now, so many things have changed, especially you.

You have grown in so many ways, and changed with the

changes. If your “Present” Me would meet up with your

“Past” me, you'd hardly know it was you. Age and life

does that to a person. A retrospective is a look back on

all you've done and the changes along the way.