As we live our lives we strive for some understanding
of what we are and why we're here, always demanding
that someone else should have to go that extra mile
to be our friend, when all we needed was their smile.
When looking back, we all may see a glimpse of our own shadow
hiding in the dark, grinning shyly at how we were once so callow
as to allow life to rush past, seventy years, a short while
though at the time eternal. Now look back again and smile.