Reminiscence

Pervasive gloom

Premonition of doom

Grey cells greying

Temerity fraying

 

Subdued aspiration

Intense reflection

Myriad deliberations create

"right or wrong" debates

 

Erstwhile ebullience of pride

On a slow, gradual slide

Good and bad jostling for space

Using scar marks to retrace

 

The painful spasms

Of growing chasms

Fragmented remembrance

Of archaic eminence

 

And despotic abundance

Time, then, but a mere toy

Squandered in the name of joy

What's left of it can't be bought

As it races away at the speed of thought