TIME'S TOLL

Look back
at your pieces of reality
and see how fast the present
left for the past of innocence,
and how fast the future
came with lowered expectations
- but left a trail
of knowledge and experience
without which you couldn't tell
the importance of time.

But its not over yet:
keep the dream of innocence alive.
For without it,
the present stays with the past,
and neither time nor the future
will have any meaning.