Gaining in Age

Something happened and its too late for me to fix it.
Time moved and I was too stuck in the future to see the present

How was I to know that my best chance to experience new things would be so short?I look back to see who I was and I’m surprised.
I was young and I didn’t know it.
I was less than I thought in many ways and more than I expected in others

The events of a lifetime happened while I stayed inside
A mind working too hard to prepare for a life that could be
While the bits and pieces of people around would have made everything more

Where is the lesson and the new life?
Where is the chance to change it?
Even now it’s not apparent
Mine is a perspective ten thousand miles above
Looking down at the many paths that I won’t walk.