It started before we knew
what was happening.
When we were young and
everything seemed so far away.
We assumed the future would stay put,
while we still moved.
The world doesn't work that way.
We're beyond that point now.
We're beyond our first cars and
the could-this-be-it relationships.
We've passed that age where we see
ourselves always in that age.
Where time stands still and
we still float along.
Time is our greatest foe.
He ticks away our minutes in a way
that deceives us into believing
that it will never end.