Looking Back

A Backward Glance

Musing, remembering, reminiscing,

A reverie replete with aspiration and idealistic ambition,

Searching for the right words to convey

Those emotions so embedded in the psyche.
That prophecy spawned of a bouyant confidence
Emboldened by youthful optimism and vague design

Now abounding with achievement incomplete.

An experience untouched by life, as yet unaware.

But there is something disconcerting

Fraught with angst and unease

About exposing –

Or imploding a profile of a life

Displaying its illusion

Its hunger still unsated,

Its goal still awaiting confirmation

Its tenure still seeking termination

And in so doing

For all life’s trials – a recompense!