So quickly it faded

My palace of dreams

Where all of my futures

Made sense of my schemes

Where things could just happen

Without reason or rhyme

And give not a thought

To the passage of time

Now in life’s autumn

I sadly reflect

Upon all those notions

That I did neglect

Left in my wake

Given up to the past

As I journey forward

To a fate that was cast

For times on the wing now

And rushes away

While leaving behind

All of my yesterdays

Just people and places

That once there had been

Now left in a thought

That seldom is dreamed

Faded like my palace