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# Life Happens
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/life-happens/
- Published: 2021-08-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-08-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Tomorrow is a different me I see, but cannot touch He looks at me, so wistfully I want to say so much How did it happen, we had dreams Had hopes we thought would last The future, along common themes Is rooted in the past
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Poetry, Short Poem, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Tomorrow is a different me  
I see, but cannot touch  
He looks at me, so wistfully  
I want to say so much  
How did it happen, we had dreams  
Had hopes we thought would last  
The future, along common themes  
Is rooted in the past

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2784721-Fields--meadows-and-nature-prompts 3\. Across the fields of yesterday, He sometimes comes to me A little lad just back from play— The boy I used to be. He looks at me so wistfully When once he’s crept within;3\. It is as if he hoped to see The man I might have been. James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge