Life

by Samuel Cravens

Last night me and life has a talk

He wanted to go on but I wanted to stay

I wanted to hold on to the past

But life said there was no way

I tried to bargin with him

I would grow up some other time

He just shook his head and said

The decision is not mine

Then I began to beg and plead

Please just wait a few years

He looked at me sadly and asked

What is it that I fear

I looked life in the eyes

And knew I could no longer hide the truth

I was a grown man in a man’s body

But in my mind I was still a youth

I turned to life again and asked

Why was he in such a hurry

He looked at me and retorted

Why was I so worried.

I wanted to be a teenager again

To do the things I never did

But life just didn’t care

Because I was no longer a kid

Life looked at me and read

From a paper in his hand

I asked what was he reading

He said the responsibility of a man

As life was reading from that paper

The list seemed to have no end

I thought life was playing a game

A game that I could not win

Although I knew the answer

I asked who was the list for

Life just looked at me and smiled

And said you not a kid anymore.