CIRCUMSPECT.
What energies I have to spend
are spent in narrow fields;
I weigh the cost of action
with the benefit it yields.
The scatter-gun approach of youth
that held up every chance
became the candid eye
that looks at everything askance.
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Comments
Short and to the point and yet still gets across, in brilliantly creative way, the loss of that youthful excitement at everything new as we get older. It perfectly describes our grown up realisation of how little time we actually have and therefore become more discerning.
Travis Brow
Tue 13th Jan 2015 12:54
Thank you Natalie, thank you Cynthia. A sad sigh indeed although it also speaks to the idea that as we age (or at least as I age) we learn to distinguish what's worth chasing/pursuing/attending to, and what isn't; i think it's called discernment.
bb (bloody brilliant)
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Travis Brow
Wed 14th Jan 2015 06:56
Thank you Jacqueline, that's just what i was aiming at.