Changes

Changes

There's a house looking worn

which once was someone's home

now in disrepair

as if no one cares.

Time has not been kind.

Sagging roof lines.

Gaping window panes.

Weeds growing in the lane.

No light shines.

No laughs bind.

No ones there.

Others stare.

Once a happy place.

Now a ghostly space.

Uncared for.

Life no more.

Forlorn

for long.

Forgotten.

Wood rotting.

There's a barn leaning,

its roof leaking,

its sides missing,

slowly crumbling.

No cattle roaming,

no calves bawling,

no roosters crowing,

no hens clucking.

Acres now left untended.

Rusty implements upended.

A gloom descends

like depression.

Yet down the road a bit

new construction sits

rafters stretching toward the sky

dreams fulfilled by and by.

New replacing old

when land was sold.

Old forsaken.

New for the taking.

What used to take months to build

in two months will be filled

with new dreams and memories

and a young family.

Lights through the window panes.

Laughter heard time and again.

Flowers in a vase.

A happy place.

The old unwanted.

Mortar crumbled.

New now belongs

standing strong.

The once young dreamer is now old

in a nursing home down the road.

Still dreaming in their mind

though time has not been kind.

For wrinkles and deep lines

increase over time

leaving furrows

and sorrows.

When once they made furrows

in the stony soil

now they sit

while the clock ticks.

The young have yet to learn

what the old have learned.

Time is a gift

that quickly sifts.

Both had dreams that were the same

but time has come and changed.

Quickly young become old

though old is like gold.

For knowledge and wisdom

is the gift that comes with aging

traded for strength and endurance

when physical strength up and went.

If only the young could appreciate

for the old have much to relate

as they sit

and the clock ticks.

Time slowly changes with each tick-tock of the clock

but time has many lessons waiting to be taught.

The young are too busy to appreciate what time has brought.

The old are waiting to tell before they become naught.

Take time today to seek out the old

for they have lessons worth more than gold

for they have learned the hard way

that time quickly slips away.

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