Life Blazing By

I found this poem I wrote about a year ago when cleaning out my documents on my computer and decided to rewrite it a little and then post it. It's about how time can fly and sometimes it seems like something just happened yesterday, but you realize that really it's been years. It covers a lot of different situations in life such as the start of a relationship, loss of a close friendship, struggles with family life, and just change in general: because like it or not life will go blazing by.

As Life Goes Blazing By

All these days, life blazing by

Doesn’t seem to be enough time in the day

For all the things I got running through my mind.

Wasn’t it yesterday? How could it be years?

We were so close- wasn’t our friendship real?

Then strangely, as quick as a snap and slow as a lifetime

No longer are we close.

Didn’t I just talk to you yesterday?

Oh, how could it be weeks, months, even years?

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.

I’m 19 now- I’m engaged.

Yes I love him- but I’m so afraid.

Don’t wanna see my life move too fast

And before my eyes something gone that I wish could last.

How did I get here? I was just turning 13 yesterday right?

Guys were all jerks just yesterday right?

Oh how could it be years?

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.

The screaming- the promises broken-my fresh and bleeding heart

That was just yesterday right?

But no it was years, oh how could it have been years?

When I close my eyes the pain is there like it happened perhaps even today

But the years have come and past and my sorrows are mixed in with the long ago yesterdays.

Yet somehow they still linger with me today.

I looked up to you just yesterday right?

You were my role model- one I desired to be like.

Then in a blink of an eye, it seemed, no longer could I trust you to guide me where I should go.

Didn’t that just happen yesterday?

Oh, how could it have been years?

The bond we used to share did it really slip away through the years?

Or did it just happen yesterday?

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.

I'm in my third year of college- how can it be?

Didn't I just start high school yesterday?

Wasn't I just a scared 14 year old walking down the freshman hall yesterday?

And alas I find it's been years, but oh, how could it have been years?

A college degree I have and another one in the making,

But wasn't it just yesterday that these things were only dreams?

How did I get here so fast, so soon?

Ah, but life has gone on and life has flown.

All this running through my mind as life goes blazing by.