#poetry
Poem: Youth
I never felt good-looking
and I'm a hagard carcas now
but looking back on old photos
I don't see why I didn't plow
Fit and fun and full of throth
what i was missing weren't that much
but i was always full of doubt
I lacked the confidence
If only only had that body
with the mind that I have now
but it all worked out in my favour
because I got one right for me
hard won with care and charisma
my youth was just my training
for the second half of life
and those who did it easy
now live for yesterday
with their best days behind them
I've hit my straps of late
call it fate, call it irony
wouldn't have it any other way
went snake eyes
with the ladies
wen't full grub and lost my way
stocks were down
no-one in my corner
far too difficult a way
then on the worst day of
my existence
she was there in the mad house
sitting right beside me
two crazies who'd lost their mind
but we would form a union
levelled up and read the signs
smashing life together
sometimes we do it tough
but we both have our magic
strong together till the last
no regrets for the late blooming
it happened as it should
because we are best together
all things of stone and wood
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Published 10-2-2026
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