====== Of Youth ======

In the past, beyond the turn of a decade, I was a child;\\  
No problems of consequence, worries only mild.\\  
Energetic, running around all day outside;\\  
Playing games, from seekers we would hide.\\  

We were royals, using blankets to build forts;\\  
We were rulers, our words law in the courts.\\  
We bothered not our subjects with common tax;\\  
And demanded our dues instead, in delicious snacks.\\  

We explored open fields and raced the clouds going by;\\  
And marvelled at airplanes that found their way through, first try.\\  
Things that amazed us then, put to childish innocence;\\  
One day to be looked back on as ignorance.\\  

//Philip van der Linde//