Where do the years go ?
They just go by so fast,
nothing seems to last.

High School, the best years
of your life it seems and
after that they just fly by
in what seems like a flash.
When you are young you
don't look back because
you have no past.

You go to War a boy and
come home a man and
everything has changed.
You are not the same and
you never will be.

You wake up one day,
you have kids and can't
believe they are grown,
you wonder how did
it happen so fast. Now
you have a past and want
what is happening to last.

Nothing lasts you soon discover,
except the love that you have
carried with you for your
parents and others.

Your parents fade away,
a loss you
never thought you would
have to face. You try to put it
out of your mind at all costs,
but when the time comes you
just carry on knowing it was
a necessary loss.

Grandkids appear and you realize
that you are old and wonder
why you were never told that
it would be like this.

You can't stop the years or
the flow of tears as the years
come at you so fast, and then
you realize that it is the same
for everybody, nothing lasts.

You look around and see that
everybody has gotten older,
your kids have kids and you
are a grandfather.

You can't help but wonder,
how did the years get by you
so fast, then you remember
what your mom said, "nothing lasts".
                                                   Jon York