One Year Later

Wandering the k-10

As anniversaries end,

Pondering events that brought us here.

If anyone remember when

Around the world and back again

Was a dream not quite so clear?

Overwhelms

Over the hills and away

Was not a mistake.

Did that straight and narrow,

Nailed self-righteous arrow

Get to be so decadent?

Could you trade your lessons

To have grown-up in the process?

Remarks never relent.

Learned by your examples

And we learned by your mistakes.

Argue our positions,

It's a decision that we have to make.

It's not a mistake

If we had known

What we know now:

One year later, we'd still be around.

Got your full attention

Over hours of speculation,

Don't you know who knows? i know.

Finally make decisions?

Finally work it out?

Finally let it go?

We're not running backwards.

Don't you know,

That we love reunion shows.

This is not a swan song:

But it goes:

If we had known what we know now:

One year later, we'd still be around.

If we had known what we know now:

One year later, we'd still be around,

Around, around.