Time Doesn't Stand Still

 

Time Doesn't Stand Still

© by Bud Lemire on Feb 15, 2025

Time doesn't stand still, because we age

As it moves ahead, each life's chapter we engage

Sometimes I'm taken back, into a memory in a song

Thinking I'm back there, yet I knew I wasn't all along

I see a singer back then, that I use to listen to

Today he's old and gray, and I think “what happened to you?”

I look in the mirror, and think “who is that old man?”

Reality bites, but it's the way of each life span

Sometimes I think, I've lived a lifetime of many years

Each chapter that I lived, brought happiness and tears

From it all, I'm happy for who I became

I'm still me, and yet I'm not the same

Others do it too, they think I'm the boy I use to be

Never realizing, they're thinking of the younger me

I'm not the only one, who gets lost in a memory

Sometimes we stay there, and it's hard to break free

Even though time doesn't stand still, this I do know

Through the journey from the past to the future, I grow

You age and change, as time moves ahead

Doing your best to go, wherever you are lead

As humans, the years and time makes us older.

Through these changes, we learn and grow

and changes happen within ourselves.

Nothing ever stays the same.