How do significant life events or the passage of time influence your perspective on life?
Births and deaths and marriages
Major Life Events
Relentless ticking of the clock
All these shape our lives.
Things that’ll flash before our eyes
As we come to that last breath
painful incidents passed from mind
Helped make us who we are.
We’re born into a culture
A class, a place in life
Parental influence guides us
Shapes us as a child.
And then there’s education
Where we go to school.
The friends we meet,
the games we play
How often we may move.
Youthful independence
The need to break away.
The circles that we move in
What we do for work.
Who we choose as partners
If relationships work
Whether we are faithful
Or painfully break up.
Having our own children
Watching them grow up.
Seeing our reflection
Wanting more for them.
Illness and affliction
Unexpected death
Mourning for our loved ones
Those that die too young.
Friendships that we make and break
People that we meet.
Whether we stay us we are
Or maybe step away.
Perhaps a mid life crisis
You’ll question who you are.
See that time is running out
And question what you’re for.
Finally you’ll get older
You’ll fight that change at first.
But one day we must all accept
That life comes to an end.
Life forms our perspective
Our views are bound to change.
If we just stay as we were
Then what’s it all been for?
Andrew Green's Poems 