<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=481599" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>When I Was Young</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When I was a young I was impressionable<br>I believed everything to me that was told<br>But then suddenly in miracles I stopped believing<br>That was the day that I grew old.<br>I now do not believe in any miracle<br>As I was taught they do not or cannot exist<br>From the complex creation of any life<br>To the formation of a tiny cyst.<br>So no longer do I walk in amazement<br>That is created by our world and nature all around<br>I now know everything can be explained<br>From a slight touch to the hearing of a sound.<br>When I was a boy I played with toy soldiers<br>I played with toy guns and I even played war<br>But then I grew up and reality it sat in<br>Now those games I play them no more.<br>Seashells they do not speak the ocean<br>The end of a rainbow it holds no pot of gold<br>Wishes cannot be granted by the first star at night<br>Sometimes I wish that I didn't grow old.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Randy L. McClave</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Randy+McClave">Randy McClave</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=481599" data-title="When I Was Young de Randy McClave" data-description="When I was a young I was impressionable I believed everything to me that was told But then suddenly in miracles I stopped believing That was the day that I grew old. I now do not believe in any miracle As I was taught they do not or cannot exist F..."></div> </div> </div>

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