THE AVALANCHE

The avalanche of time descends

Upon all of mankind

Slowly it starts its trek

Then faster and faster we find

When I was young of age

I found time passed very slow

Christmas Eve seemed to last forever

Santa I knew wouldn’t show

A summer day stretched into eternity

Like an unending road of time

The hands on the clock stood still

The world and all therein were mine

Then a movement here and there

Caused the avalanche of my life to start

But teenage years passed like cold molasses

Running down a warm lonely heart

When I was twenty one I found

It hard to believe I was a man

But soon I found myself thirty one

Someone was messing up my plan

I planned to stay young forever

Time would never pass me by

But forty crept by even faster

Fifty before I could bat an eye

Sixty came and went so fast

Like a train passing in the night

Before I knew what had happened

It has past and was out of sight

Seventy is now all about me

As the avalanche gathers speed

I yearn for those old slow days

But upon time the avalanche does feed

As a baby I slept all the day long

Without a worry or a sigh

I now cherish each and every moment

As the avalanche of time flies by