UPSIDE DOWN too

A short poem that came upon me, hope it's alright it came in the night, so I penned it this morning, don't know what you like but it came like that out of the blue so I wrote it down just for you.

I posted it before but when I checked, it needed some polish or so I thought, why not try to do a bit more so here it goes, I hope you like.

UPSIDE DOWN

When your a child

No need to think

Time for learning

Not for yearning

Learning to walk

Learning to talk

We just learn

We don't have to try

Walk without thinking

Talk without to trying

We grow up slowly

Though it seems so fast

Forget our mistakes

That seemed so large

There now in the past

Then as we grow older

We realise how great it was

To be little not tall

Then our life changes

We're not small anymore

We have different lives

 We've grown, we're now tall

Our children are growing up

They say they've learned it all

Or, so they say

Now we have got wisdom

Or so we are told

Now we know just what to do

We will always be learning

Now we know, we really do

 Our kids, they'll do it just the same

They'll think they know it

Think they've learned

But do you know

They'll have to do it, just like us

Make there mistakes

They will, do it all again

They might remember, some of it

The bits that saved them pain

Mostly they'll do it all again

The mistakes we made along the way

They may just do it just the same

Maybe they'll get it, or maybe not

Yes we tried though, to give them the lot

Whether it was enough we'll never know

It was our best shot and that's what they got

Stephen W T Read July 2010