At nine o’clock I start thinking About those I have forgotten I wonder if I have ever hurt them In ways that I never sought This is life and things happen In ways that one never knows Soon you are forgotten, too And only your sorrow shows I think of many things In the past that passes us by Wonder how things might have been When viewed form someone else’s eye The thing is, we all move on Except those who tend to cling They become the champion of stories Know every song we would wing No way to go back to the past Because now it is only pro-log Look at the steps we took to Only become a useful cog In the wheel of life that is turning, but Waiting not for you or me Step aboard and become part of the action Be the best that you can be Or jump off and seek isolation Avoid anything that seems untoward Live a life futile and complaining Of no excitement and that you are bored Answers do no come easy Sometimes no answers at all I can picture one laying in repose In a casket in an empty hall I think of all the people Wonder where they are And if they soared like a rocket Or stayed just how they were Stansberry McKricken aka Stanski July 15, 2021 ^