As we “welcome” everyone back, Quintus poetically reminds us time is fleeting and ephemeral. Enjoy the daily life of your adolescence because . . . it will be over soon.

By Quintus Ni

Time flies like flowing water

Youth departs with the water

You can’t catch

The steps of time

Like the sunlight that vanishes in the far

That cannot be chased

When

Wrinkles creep up on your face

When gray hair grows

Looking back

Youth is a river flowing forever

Searching in a daze

Chasing at a loss

In the distance

Is the paradise of dreams

Ethereal

And hazy

Cheap if you say it is beautiful

Far from being expressed in words

Unpredictable

Untouchable

It’s a mirage

Like passing time

The youth fades away

when you least expect it to

Desiring all the time

To meet each other

Saying goodbye

Turn around

And enter the lingering light

Of the setting sun

Everyone has his or her own youth, but youth is fleeting. Time flies! It fades away at every moment whether you catch or not!–Quintus

Editor: Luke Langlois