I wish I had more time

I wish I could take longer to grow up

I wish I cared more about being a kid when I was one

I wish I could go back

Back to betting on which rain drop will win across the window

Back to sliding down the stairs on a blanket

Back to racing barefoot through the yard

When a scraped knee was the greatest worry I had

I wish worries weren’t so heavy now

I never liked the idea of peaceful ignorance

And I don’t like ignorance now

But I wish I had that peace

That sounds pretty good to me 

I wish I had longer before my friends were deployed

I wish I had longer before I leave too

I wish just for a moment that life would slow down

But as they say “time flies by” 

I wish I had more time