The Poet's Advice to His Younger Self by Annie Gallup (Lyrics by Bob Jensen)

From Annie Gallup's CD "Did You Hear the Red-Winged Blackbird?" in which she set a dozen of my poems to music.
Who at some point in his life has not thought, boy, if I had known then what I know now, or wished he could go back and give his younger self some advice. I know I sure have.
When I think about those halcyon days as a child, climbing apple trees, cooking mussels on the beach in an old tin can, floating makeshift rafts on temporary ponds left by the melting snow in April, I can scarcely believe that I experienced such wondrous things. I remember August days along the Restigouche River in northern New Brunswick that seemed to never end. It was as though our very exuberance held the sun from falling into the west. But childhood does not come with a manual, and we don’t get a mulligan for the things we might have done differently. It may sound odd to say it, but I love that little boy, that feral kid I was, swimming under the waterfalls and scavenging the beaches, and I miss him.
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