Rose Colored Glasses

[Seeker]

Inspired by the bubbly effervescent gym toned starry eyed innocence and not to mention the prissy plastic teenage wanna be's (and I'm sure we all fitted into one of those categories in our more formative years). enjoy!

Rose Colored Glasses

Time marches slowly while in the bloom of youth

and love seems as idyllic as it can be.

Your rose colored glasses frame your face just so

although unbeknown to you they will shatter eventually.

The folly of youth is that the lessons you will learn

won't be understood until youth is left behind.

While the folly of the old is that the lessons we have learnt

We would wish that we had known about in time.

I'd give you words of warning but why waste what little breath I have

when deaf ears is all such words would find.

I'd try to paint a picture of the way the world truly works,

But the ignorance of youth leaves you color blind.

You think yourself immune to the ravages of time

but there will come a time when time itself wins the day

and when mortality hits home and cuts you to the bone

it will be your turn to look to another and say

Time marches slowly while in the bloom of youth

and love seems as idyllic as it can be.

Your rose colored glasses frame your face just so

although unbeknown to you they will shatter eventually.