It was many years ago
I thought I knew
And now I know the truth
I really had no clue
I’m no longer who I was
A new me emerged from within
Guess you could say
It was time to shed my skin
Gone are the days
When life was a simple game
So naïve was I to think
I’d steer my own life’s train
For I knew not
My fate already written
The proof in these very words
From the writing bug I’d been bitten
To a dozen different paths
I might have taken
But I wound up here
And the rest I’d forsaken
My rear view mirror
Never far away
Where I walk those unchosen paths
And wonder, what happened to yesterday?
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