Carpe Diem

"Oh, how I long for the fountain of youth,

To daily grow younger, not older.

I wish I could go back to live in my youth,

Through its fields to frolick forever.

 

"But now it is gone!!, no more to recover,

All that time that I let go to waste.

Oh, why was I foolish to give up the laughter

And fun of my youth and to not seize the day?"

 

So have I cried as I've walked through adulthood

Surrounded by others like me

Who long to go back and to walk through their childhood,

To just let their spirits fly free.

 

But, 'tis never too late for that old "carpe diem"

As long as you have breath to breathe.

For, of youth, there's a fountain in which you can swim;

And, moment by moment, each day you can seize.

 

Seize, when you wake,

Every day at the dawn.

Or soon 't will be late

And the day will be gone.

 

Every moment seize and savor;

Make the most of every day.

The simple things of life just treasure.

For you may not have another day.

 

Don't mourn for yesterday

Or fret o'er the future.

For a waste of today

Is a loss of great treasure.

 

Mourning and worry will make you age faster

And will quickly waste your life away.

So, dearly hold onto life's wonderful treasure;

And, beginning right now, seize this precious day.

 

For as, daily, you practice that wise "carpe diem,"

Inside you will truly grow younger.

And, as you awaken the child within,

Your visage will also grow younger.