Where Have You Gone?

I keep looking behind each door

and around every corner

but I don’t see you anymore

where have you gone?

youth is fleeting

a series of silly and solemn acts

competing

with time and facts

where have you gone?

I look in the mirror

but you aren’t there

hiding behind tired eyes

and lengthy sighs

where have you gone?

enthusiasm and energy

are but a memory

lost in the passage of time

when I was in my prime

where have you gone?

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