Experience

Once I was a boy, an innocent to life and my role in it,
 This world played my game, and anyone a clown or foil for
 myself
 The harmless affairs, and no-one seemed to care for any
 meaning
 My life was my own, The debt I paid, I paid it only to
 myself
 The unseeing youth, how can it be so shallow and short-
 sighted
 These years passed me by, to realise the folly of these unripe
 years
 Now I am a man, I realise
 My unworldly sins pained many lives
 Yet I heard, heard with ears that wouldn't listen
 And still I watched and I saw with blinkered eyes
 But with age the conscience slowly dawns and bonds of
 duty gently tied
 All my sins, seen through now there is experience and
 recollecting act in virgin guise.
 Master inner voices, making the choices
 Once I could rebel and consequences then had no reflection
 And I am a man, And I am bound by adult age discretion
 now