We Were Among the Young and Sexy
And the gladly naive and pretentious. We were the you-can-stop-us-nows, the get-out-of-our-ways. The untouchable certainty of our youth shined as a gleaming tower on the horizon. We were the Darlings of the status quo. And then it was over. We married and divorced. We had children. Our knees gave out. One gray hair became two. Some of us turned to the bottle, others soldiered on undaunted. A few of us died. And now, if we don’t already know better, we suspect something better. The tired faces of our parents remind us of what the mirrors are already saying - life is short, don’t cling to the ephemeral, the greatest gift is surrendering to the now.
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