Hard Lesson Poem by David Welch

I can't go where you go,
cause you're so damn nouveau,
you keep looking for the next wave
while I stand on the shore and watch ‘em break.

You won't hear what I say,
think I'm so damned passé,
keep believing your cutting edge
cause every day you wake up in a new bed.

Time keeps on flying by,
lines form around your eyes,
all the 'new rules' you know so well
keep you forever riding that carousel.

The day comes you're not so hot,
they cast you aside to rot,
old bio clock's almost out of ticks
and they don't want 'girls' at thirty-six.

You show up at my door,
thinking I can give you more,
answered by a boy with my face
did you really think that I would sit and wait?

No.