Once It Was All Young And Innocent And Just Beginning Poem by Shalom Freedman

ONCE IT WAS ALL YOUNG AND INNOCENT AND JUST BEGINNING

Once it was all young and innocent and just beginning
And all of it was new and difficult and incredible
And now it all gone and lost and old and over and over again repetitive
But once it was young and new and innocent and just beginning
And remembering that I wonder
Where Life fled and how it has all past and been lost
And will never be again
Young and innocent and full of hope and lost
As it was