There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. – Mary Wortley Montagu
My, how soon old we get
one moment,
a whole life before us
the next –
do i mean moment
or life –
no longer expectant youth….
And most of us
reach the ending time
without a life to show
for having lived
because we haven’t.
3/12/1972