I have tried to discover the very best of times,
examining and experiencing the life that I live.
Can it be the perspective and final distillation
that advancing years and seniority gives?
Or perhaps it is in middle age that the peak is attained,
with maturity untouched by senile erosion.
Our logic is now developed to support powerful reasoning,
free from the importuning of childish emotion.
But no, I am going for the earlier years,
though our conduct may be less perfect and sometimes uncouth.
But the potential awaits in both body and mind
with the magic gift of new life and of youth.