Listen To Your Daddy

by Joan Moos
 
The older I get the more
frustrated I become with time.
 
Daddy always said,
”The older you get, the faster time flies.”
 
I never fully understood what he meant
when I was younger,
but as each day slips away
I can see it becomes more like
a snowball rolling down a hill,
gathering more and more snow as it picks up speed,
rolling faster and faster.
There's no stopping it
until it gets to it’s final destination,
wherever that might be.
 
I can't tell you how many times I've heard
my friends say that they, too, have
heard the same thing from their dad's,
so it must be true, right?


I guess we just must go along for the ride
and hope that it’s a smooth one.
 
Now I just hear myself
utter the same words
over and over again,
in my own way –
 
“It seems like only yesterday  . . .”
 
More poems by Joan Moos can be found in her book,
“To Soar: Life is an Attitude”,
available in most online bookstores.