Spliced between cradle and crypt
Erratic , capricious - raw:
Youth is but a raging bull
A hurricane unyoked !
Brutish though benign its course
passion anoints each act or did .
And exuberance as such
that knows no bounds,
tallies restraint to the faint of heart.
Roll the dice and feed your vices
you lads and lasses of the tide.
Set loose your ships , ply wild and free
amidst life's gales and rocky crops;
and if such insouciance grants you lease
let tattered sails and broken rudders
your youthful trophies be .
Not so for the keen and prudent lot
who plow their time in tidy rows
sowing dreams where thorn bushes
once thrived, in their primal hours being.
And if such diligence , a lease would grant
let glory by the bushels their youthful
barns soon reap.
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