Ticket 2 Ride

The years wear deep grooves

Like canyons, especially on my soul

Time grows many tree-like rings

Towering, flaunty as a maypole

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Memories fly by, mile markers of life

A teen sprouts, what’s it all about

Twenties, playing like a grownup

No longer convincing as a Boy Scout

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Married and a family at thirty

Divorced at forty, just those u-turns

Love comes later, the years are sweeter

The heart doesn’t lie, it still yearns

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Fifty is forever, but it’s not

The twilight of sixty is misty

If you haven’t found your way

The roads are increasingly twisty

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More chances, more mistakes

Often lost, somehow found

Luckier than I deserve

Still on the right side of the ground

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Of those billions of twinkling stars

Snowflakes float from our sky

Each singular and earthbound

Feeling blessed, I’m that guy