Life

You are born, sleep, grow
eat, live, show promise
walk, talk, learn
grow more
show more promise
learn bigger things
take exams, go to college, get a car
take a gap year, travel far and wide
see the world
loose some weight
meet a girl, or a boy, get a job,
get a flat, get a mortgage and a cat
buy a ring
accept a ring
sing
go shopping
buy food
clothes, computer, DVD,
new car, CD system, bottle of wine
move on up the property line
bigger house, where the cat can catch a mouse,
have a baby, watch it grow,
sleep, eat, live, show promise
go to school
walk, talk, play the fool
growing older, you've aches and pains
things go missing from your brain
old teachers, faces, names
kids grow up,
go to college, get a car, take a gap year
travel far and wide
find true love and buy a flat
get married, get a cat
new house, mortgage
babies too
you move on to a smaller place
give up work, don't recognise the face in the mirror,
where did it come from?
you learn to paint
see the babies on a Sunday
sleep through half of Monday
wonder how you got here
eat drink
start to shrink
(what's that about?)
move in with the kids
watch the babies grow up and take exams
go to college meet a man
or a woman, get a car,
take a gap year and travel far
their world grows
while yours is shrinking
you can't remember what your thinking
but never matter
you're getting fatter