Yesterday, When I Was Young

星期五在公司收到大老細的伊貓， 告知大家一位同事因癌病去世。這位同事一直都沒有一起工作過，但就與他諗熟。此無他，因為在學時他曾是我的同班同學。一數已經是差不多二十年前的事了。

今日在公司匆匆碰見另一位同事。雖然我也是沒有與她一起工作過，但也與對方熟絡。此無他，因為在學時有好幾年她的辦工室就在我的旁邊。一數已經是差不多二十年前的事了。今日匆匆一瞥下見她腹大便便，原來她正準備迎接新生命的來臨。

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今日無意中在收音機聽到這首歌。

Yesterday, When I Was Young, Roy Clark , 1969

Yesterday, when I was young,
The taste of life was sweet, as rain upon my tongue,
I teased at life, as if it were a foolish game,
The way the evening breeze may tease a candle flame

The thousand dreams I dreamed, the splendid things I planned,
I always built, alas, on weak and shifting sand,
I lived by night, and shunned the naked light of day,
And only now, I see, how the years ran away

Yesterday, when I was young,
So many happy songs were waiting to be sung,
So many wild pleasures lay in store for me,
And so much pain, my dazzled eyes refused to see

I ran so fast that time, and youth at last ran out,
I never stopped to think, what life, was all about,
And every conversation, I can now recall,
Concerned itself with me, and nothing else at all

Yesterday, the moon was blue,
And every crazy day, brought something new to do,
I used my magic age, as if it were a wand,
And never saw the worst, and the emptiness beyond

The game of love I played, with arrogance and pride,
And every flame I lit, too quickly, quickly died,
The friends I made, all seemed somehow to drift away,
And only I am left, on stage to end the play

There are so many songs in me, that won't be sung,
I feel the bitter taste, of tears upon my tongue,
The time has come for me to pay,
For yesterday, when I was young