In Youth we learn, In age we understand.

Dawned with innocence

I played at my will

Filled with arrogance

I got what I wished

With too much tender love
Everybody spoiled me
For they gave everything
That I asked for

I grew up, slowly

Learning about life,

Facing the difficulties

Feeling lost in love

Ah! Such an experience

The pleasure of knowing something

The contemplation of love

The fear of failure

Unaware of what the future has for me

I risked almost everything

Dared to do the impossible

Fought the little battles of life

Parents guided my ambition
Teachers nurtured my aspirations
Growing was fun, I thought
And I feel so wrong now. 

As time flew by

As fate dawn upon me

I had to be careful, of myself

Careful of the step I had to take

But among all complications

Among all struggles and difficulties

Among all the unpleasant setbacks

I fought each, one at a time

With a little victories,
Many failures
I stood steady, without losing hope
Overcame each hurdle, each failure.

Now, I am grown up and old

And look back at the ancient times

Happy I feel, with myself

With the life as the young.

I see the children playing, 

Screaming and Enjoying

I see the innocence, 

I see the child in them.

As a child I never understood

The reason for their candidness

The artful ingenuity

The adolescent confusion

And now I feel so lost
As I miss the tenderness
The innocence in the work
The wait for the unexpected.

Someone rightly said, 

"In Youth we learn, 

In age we understand" 

And I couldn't agree more.

- Ajay Kontham © 2013

Written for Carry on Tuesday under the prompt, "In Youth we learn, In age we understand". 

P.S. Oh boy. I  think I am getting too bad at this. I get almost one week, and I just can't formulate the thoughts properly. I need to work on getting to work my magic around the words. I actually jot down my thoughts like brainstorming, and then I go blank. How do I add and mix and color these words and give them shape and life to mean something, to signify something? And i am just lost at it. I really appreciate the people who write the moment the topic is out. You got some talent, Sir(s) and Madam(s).