Times Churn, Tables Turn

I read somewhere a quote from Sidney J. Harris that says "Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own." Hihi.... made me think of a couple of people (maybe it nmakes them think of me too). Anyway, we usually think we have all the answers and know where we'll be in a couple of years time. A couple of years down the line (Unless you are Barrack Obama where he is where he dreamt he'd be), most of us are far from it. We've either taken a totally different road or jumped into an entirely different plane.
As we sit down to catch up with old friends or acquintances......well, we begin to see just how far we are from our youthful ideals. The the ones that would frown and shun others due to arrogance are now considerably toned down and the hopeless one seemed to have emerged smelling so rosy. This is not laugh or condemn no one. This is just to acknowledge that in life, tables do turn.

Tables Turn

The time has come and tables turn,
Children are born and fools learn,
In the unravelling of best laid plans,
Dipped into the fountain of knowledge and got drunk,
The fleeting moments and Life's charm,
Is that past positions can be undone.

I'm sitted here and you there,
With a couple of moments to spare,
As we talk and talk and as we share,
About past actions and what we've dared,
About our triumphs and greatest scares,
Our true selves, we begin to bare.

So we've come far and we've seen much,
We've increased in sense, we've increased in touch,
We've gone out all night then returned to church,
We've increased in friends and kept in touch,
We've been lucky in love or continued our search,
One or two of our dreams we've managed to catch.

But we are far from where we begun,
From the arrogance of our youth and the haste of our tongue,
From our assumption of truth and thinking we'd always be young,
Concerned over little but the shining of the sun,
You knew where you'd be and I where I'd land,
But all our dreams were like writings on the sand.

So here we are, seeming to have a good laugh,
About the jobs, the drama and all that stuff,
How we've been through it all, the good and the tough,
and when we didn't know when to say "Enough",
We've experienced it and called life's bluff,
And you and I are still here, even though tables have turned.

Terida