Life Like Rust

It's sections and stages and segments and so on;

in the very first act

you've so little to go on.

But the fear of unknowing

(that u pray isn't showing)

is just one measly side

of the dice that you're throwing.

ur told it will fade

with each game that is played,

but ol' snake eyes

just keeps on a' showing.

This, my friends, is surely why, one's childhood passes

in the blink of an eye,

leaving us, while no wiser, more wary; gun shy…

And if wishes were apples

we'd be swimming in pie!

More segments behind you, more memories; less contacts

Regardless of history

no one signed a contract

Blood's only thicker in the most literal way;

best friends become strangers, moms so rarely stay.

A big raucous family crammed close for a decade

will disperse and stay scattered like dust,

In less than a tenth of the time spent together,

leaving nothing but a circle of rust