This is a poem that I found today. It was written 6 years ago on my 31st birthday. It sounds a bit desperate, but it really wasn’t. It’s about not letting opportunities pass. We all take life for granted at different junctures in our lives. I was just realizing that I have to make every day count, not just the days when I was feeling good. It was shortly after writing this poem that I began eating and exercising the right way, and wound up losing 40 pounds. i feel like this poem was a springboard to that. Hopefully finding it will remind me how precious every day of life is. I hope you enjoy it.
31 YEARS
31 years complete
31 years behind
31 years have come and gone
31 years on my mind
A year for every day in March
A year per Baskin Robbins flavor
A year for every troubled thought
A year for every honored favor
So many things I wish I’d done
So many things I wish I’d not
So many ideas I let slip by
So many feelings that i fought
There were those trivial things I stressed about
There were the stresses that I trivialized
There were the realizations that I dreamt about
But too few dreams that I realized
I’ve had so many good memories
Flooded out by bad circumstance
I’ve had so many opportunities
Slip by without a second glance
A whole life has passed me now
Is there a whole life to live still ahead?
Will I have learned from the mistakes I’ve made?
Or regret my life when on my deathbed?
I’m thankful for these 31 years
Though I know they could’ve been so much more
Gotta make sure that in the next 31 years
I live them like if I had none more.