What Happened???

We’re gathered here after fifty years, there’s been a lot of laughs, been a few tears,
As we near the time out where the sidewalk ends,
All of us are moving slower, parts of us are hanging lower,
But we love the time with our oldest dearest friends.

In fifty years a lot has changed, our bodies now are rearranged,
And everything seems slightly out of place,
We suffer from our aches and pains, we have our stresses and our strains,
And we have to buy our Ben Gay by the case.

Our body changes don’t seem fair, our hair is gray or isn’t there,
We spend our leisure cursing at our fate,
When we arise each early morn we sound like we are popping corn,
And when did we collect this extra weight?

In youth we had a single fashion, our lives revolved around our passion,
The opposite sex was a lovely thing to see,
We still can have romantic thrills, but now we need those little blue pills,
Our love lives now depend on the pharmacy.

Aging brings out one sad fact, we’re obsessed with our digestive tract,
And we take care of it as the best we can,
We’re finding now as we grow old, working bowels are worth pure gold,
So we breakfast on our prunes and Raisin Bran.

So now we spend our evening here with old school spirit and good cheer,
We have so many memories to share,
There’s changes on the outer side but not much on the inner side,
Those teenage kids are still down deep in there.


This was written for my fiftieth high school class reunion held in my home town Moab, Utah. It was a magical weekend full of laughs and puzzzling recognitions.