10 Years On

Everyday awareness  

Take me to my highness  

Putting down the weapons  

Of my mental blindness  

Let me feel the bliss  

Of a day to reminisce  

Letting down my guard  

Forgetting my to-do list  

Leaning into pain  

And learning, each refrain  

As decades pass by faster  

And each year links life's chain  

I feel myself much wiser  

To know I'd be a liar  

Not to see that 10 years on  

These words will seem much triter  

And from that perch in time  

May I treat my follies kind  

And return to that innocence-  

Life not repeating but set to rhyme:  

Of one who knows but not quite so much  

As one day on, and on, til all is dust.