TIME A TICKA

There is a moment

when your wildness

will finally be tamed

your insanity cured

your behavior finally modified.

You will be calmer,

milder, somewhat diminished

but you'll finally be in control.

You may be half the man you might have been

but at least you'll be a man.

Soon, you will find,

you have grown up

softened your edges

altered yourself irreparably.

You will grow up, eventually

or in a moment.

Ask yourself:

who will you be :