Too young to know how to live
7 May 2019, 23:44
Time weights me down,
all the lives I haven’t lived.
The future moments press
its pointy fingers on my cheeks.
You own a life that has not
been lived yet.
You are so young, you haven’t
lived enough to know.
There is a whole future
for you out there.
I reiterate, and say you
have a future ahead.
It is true, I do not know what
lays on this long street.
But I drive
without a driver’s license,
the wheels keep turning,
like the needles of the clock.
Remember the clock that
hanged in your classroom wall?
It doesn’t tick anymore.
Has time stopped then?
Maybe that is why you’ve
stopped living too.
Your infancy is frozen in
the past,
where is the key to that lock?
Why can’t I go back to the
moments I was a child?
My memories are build up
from photographs.
So, what are the real memories
that I remember living?
All that I did before now,
might be forgotten one day.
And forgotten is lost,
forgotten means it didn’t happen.
why can’t I remember forgotten things?
My life, my life, my life.
What am I saying,
I’m too young to have lived a life.
So what is this mass of moments
pooling in my hands?
Is this not a life?
No! you are to young!
Then what is it?
Wasted time!
Why is it wasted time?
It is wasted time, ‘cause
you don’t remember it.
-Elen Fohere