Gladys N. Focho
LIFE’S WORRIES
Out you come screaming,
Screaming, yet the beginning,
Beginning of crying and worrying,
Worrying about dying and living.
Living with no words for expression,
Expression of experienced emotion,
Emotion taken for granted till an explosion,
Explosion; an infant’s way of explanation.
Explanation unmastered in early childhood,
Early childhood of tantrums, and falsehood
Falsehood imagined by those in adulthood
Adulthood plunging kids into early manhood.
Manhood in later childhood; how thoughtless
Thoughtless, expected perfection is baseless
Baseless, since emotional turmoil is countless
Countless, yet multiplies till the pit bottomless.
Bottomless pit of storm and stress in adolescence
Adolescence when parents contradict all in the Age
Age that widens generation gap though quite modern
Modern age seen by the adolescent as a golden stage.
Stage golden to each generation, blind to its excesses
Excesses of youthfulness regretted nearing maturity
Maturity full of miscarried plans, void of tranquillity
Tranquillity got from success, success from ingenuity.
Ingenuity fading with old age, all coming to an end
End to physical, emotional, cognitive, social growth
Growth from a vibrant being towards a backward trend
Trend from one stage of development to the natural end
End, when nothing and no one seems to be your real friend.