Twenty Something

I wish that I could remember
The time of someone’s life that wasn’t mine
Claim accomplishment, technicolour
Fame and laughter, heights I’d climb

I was so very great, I must have been
To accumulate so much
That I forgot it all
Pitch and toss, bottle fall

A photograph to whom it may concern
It added up to snow in summer sun
Said and done, nothing at all
From glass to bottle learn and turn

I to whom or what was that aye
Drowned, awash did not die
No rock salvation moored
Redemption and lime I poured

Lost and gone, love and time
Yesterday, tomorrow black not grey
Sorrows stain not washed away
I’ve borrowed what is mine

My laments’ debt not paid

Regret the dance away I fade
Before and now they turned around

Future not past I drowned