The Journey of One Word to Another

there is only one thing you've been looking for all these years
you've gone in blindly knowing that when it presents itself to
you that you will know that the search has at last come to an
end how quickly the years have passed by in this pursuit they
fall away like so many hairs caught in a comb skin ages like
parchment as memory cracks like a windshield with a rock
lodged in it obstructing the view of the road faces become
raindrops passing before a green screen like a scene from a
movie yet to be made picture of yourself from your child-
hood you can barely believe that to be yourself how many
lives ago was that what has happened to all those memories
lived that have now been forgot add another grain of sand
to the beach before the tide comes in and carries it out to
sea the clouds have gathered at the coast and blocked out
the sun the bathing beach bunny beauties have all gone
home to their apartments in the outlying inland areas their
beach towels left to remember the summer past there is only
winter now for all of us we have found ourselves once more
at the mercy of the cycle of the seasons how strange it would
be if they were ever out of balance if spring lead to winter
lead right to summer but fall wouldn't mind if it still held
its same place but the seasons can't think they can only move
to the motions prescribed to them but our doting mother who
wonders how we could treat her this way but she loves us still
her prodigal children come back to her her embrace as full of
hope as it ever has but we've grown up so fast and she wonders
whether or not we can make it on our own oh mother have we
disappointed you have we broken your heart mother mother
please forgive us all father was never around to show us