When You Were Eleven

Remember you as a child of eleven,

… needs and wants and desires

In the present and beyond into future fires

So much is a given, so much is form

What we do fits a pattern, a norm

You look beyond, go beyond current path

Ignoring realities cruel math

Imagining, a future perfect now

It will be different someway somehow

But it is the journey, the effort the way

Giving you joy, if you accept it every day

There is always a future, always a desire

Always a path, a struggle, another fire

You may not see it complete or fair

But someday you know when you are there

As life brings you that little bit of heaven

Think how far you come since you were just eleven