-on a person's 20th birthday
When I turned twenty I couldn't wait,
so sure was I to change the world.
Exactly right were all my thoughts
I couldn't ever stop to state.
So I turned fourty while I built and built
on top of my precisely stated schemes.
My loved ones warned me for collapse
but I would never stop, in it to the hilt.
When I turned sixty, felt a faint crack,
not in my infallible buildings
but in my overstressed back.
Now that I am eighty years of age
I know the way to perfection:
the missing line in your design
opens your cage for the future page.
May 4, 2018
May 4, 2018 at 12:22 AM UTC
-on a person's 20th birthday
When I turned twenty I couldn't wait,
so sure was I to change the world.
Exactly right were all my thoughts
I couldn't ever stop to state.
So I turned fourty while I built and built
on top of my precisely stated schemes.
My loved ones warned me for collapse
but I would never stop, in it to the hilt.
When I turned sixty, felt a faint crack,
not in my infallible buildings
but in my overstressed back.
Now that I am eighty years of age
I know the way to perfection:
the missing line in your design
opens your cage for the future page.
Hmm. 4 stanzas x 4 lines makes 16 lines. 1 line missing + 4 makes 5. And 5 times 4 makes a pretty girl's 20 years. I knew it worked somehow ;-)
