Time it passes
oh so fast.
Life is at full speed.
Yesterday I was a child
with few cares and needs.

Our youth and beauty is but brief,
gone in the blink of an eye,
swirling downward like sand
in the hourglass of time.

We must live and laugh and love
not forget to dance,
seek by what we are most blessed.
Not give discontentment
even a second glance.

The sands of time in my life
will run their course one day.
But this I pray with all my heart
I will not forget
to live and laugh and love,
and always smile and dance,
all along the way.