24 Hours

My alarm clock inside

Can’t hide, can’t hide

How I’ve been since I turned 24

A tick by the hour

I could sit and watch the clock

But it just leaves me feeling sour

Time’s running out

Even though I’m only 24

Where did all those years go?

How much time has been wasted?

On things that I could not change?

I’ve been gone for so long

I had forgotten where I had gone

Thought that next I would be going beyond

But I ended up falling to my knees

Why couldn’t life be as easy as a summer breeze?

Sat at a picnic with the wind blowing through the trees

But I’m left feeling like branches

heavy and covered with snow

Like on a winter’s morning

I’ve only been here twenty four hours

but I know it’s the place to be