Once I was young and strong,
Consumed with compelling
desires of Horizon Lust,
traveling forth wide and far.
Time and age has intervened,
now I stand alone and wait
high above on the city gate,
Silent sentry to all of those young
lives that venture forth to explore
horizons of their own, and those
weather beat ones like me
returning to rest and remain.
Accepting as I must, that I shall
never again roam too far afield
from my place upon the gate,
Content with a life well lived,
to languish now upon this place.
Horizon Lust is for the young.
Oh, if only we possessed our
acquired wisdom of age
back in our youth.
Now a heart and mind
full of memories along
with a tranquil place by
the home fire hearth is enough.
Though I would not be
who I am, with out pushing
out to discover what's there..