Everything Must Die...

Everyone misses first grade
when everything was simple.
Life revolved around games played
and who was the coolest rascal.

Everyone remembers second grade
and the games of hide and seek.
Reading picture books in the shade
About knights and heroes protecting the weak.

Everyone longs for third grade
and playing tag under the sun.
When everlasting promises were made
and when imagination games were fun.

Everyone yearns for fourth grade
when growing up had just begun.
Realizing the promises you'd made
were broken and finished and done.

Everyone dreams about fifth grade
and being once again so naive.
Of the future we weren't yet afraid
and still thought sand could fill a sieve.

Everyone misses the sixth grade
when choices were easy to make.
Nobody dreamed the ones they loved
would be the ones to betray.

Everyone remembers seventh grade
when things started going wrong.
Childhood had finally begun to fade
The sense sinking in that we didn't belong.

Everyone longs for the eighth grade
when middle school came to a close.
Grasping and reaching for decisions unswayed
not knowing the future had arose.

Everyone misses ninth grade
and the innocence it shattered.
The knife that cut like a blade
all that ever mattered.

Soon time begins to move
faster then ever before.
The road ahead no longer smooth
we have to face it, can't ignore.

Tenth grade has come and past
barely time to breathe.
The days, not long, cannot last
time drifting away through a sieve.

Can barely remember eleventh grade
it went by so, so fast.
Maybe if it would've stayed
the memories would've been vast.

Twelfth grade was goodbye
to everything we'd ever known.
Childhood dreams will soon die
as the memories fade of home.

Maybe if we'd of seized the day
then things wouldn't hurt like they do.
The words are becoming harder to say
the end has come too soon.

Childhood was there, then gone
barely had time to see.
Those who came and went
in our hearts will always be.

Youth is like the sun
shining brightly in the sky.
We didn't know it then
that everything must die.