If I could turn back time...

I'd go to adolescence
that blend of, that uncomfortable straddle of mature horizon and setting innocence

that time when you think that a heartache is end of the world
when a hurt feeling is your world

that time when life is simpler and sweeter
and small problems are the only problems, so they seem big problems

that time...when you are so innocent
that you cannot fathom that people can be cruel and life unfair
that it doesn't occur to you that choices can be limiting

that time...when you are mature enough
to become fearful and inhibited
to become aware and vulnerable

to be able to live that irony
to be able to live that high of youth
to be able to live and not realize that you are so alive

that time when you are not quite responsible for your own self
and you don't realize how much weight that bears
to be able to live that eagerness to grow up
without the burden of grown up years

perhaps I wouldn't turn time at all
coz' life does move on one-way lane
when it is ashes and dust for all
to go through it all one more time...seems bane