“Of Youth and Time,” Ensign, Jan. 1971, 85
Of Youth and Time
Young youth is gone
and leaves me standing
in the spot of life
where Dad stood
when I entered
youngest youth.
Now being here
and where he was,
I see
that he
is further on
and in the part of life
where, when I reach
that part
where he is standing now,
he’ll be
to where life’s sand
runs thin
and bids to other things.
Youth was so short ago,
and when I think
that that much time again
will put me in my father’s place,
I see
how short the span of life
must really be.
And though
I envy youth’s hour gone,
I know
that after aging days,
new youth will come again—
And Dad and I
Will stand together in the time.