Outlook

Ever changing perspectives is all I've ever known
Nothing stays the same for ever too long
Ghosts of my past finally swept away
Hopes and dreams of a more amazing day

Harsh light rains down as poisonous air swirls around
Dark clouds and closed doors are all to be found
Wishing thinking, none of my questions answered
Faint understanding and reasoning barely heard

While children run, scream and shout
Oblivious to the pain, hurt, suffering to come
Their outlook on life millions of bright rainbows
Of playtime, innocence no consequence or lows

To step back just 8 years and remember the outlook on life
Compare to now and how much you can grow
Sweetness, bitterness, unpleasantness and joy
Final realisation of more seeds waiting to be sown

For this is life, is not as easy and simple as you thought when you were ten
For this is yours, for you to decide what choices you will make
Be influenced well, step back and see the bigger picture
Takes risks but dont fall into nets of barbed wire

Some people will fall, those people who ten years back were oh so sweet
Now thugs and bullies who terrorise you on the street
Others will fly high like how you could never imagine
Those people are the ones to influence the new youth

Outlooks will change, you are what you are
Not as innocent as that dazzling star
Makes those mistakes and take note
Becomes better than they all could have hoped