Nothing Gold Can really Stay

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf,
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day
Nothing gold can stay.

Robert Frost's "Nothing Gold Can Stay" poem was featured in 1967 teen novel, "The Outsiders".

The poem has many meanings: childhood, innocence, life… but what I think that the poem intended to the fact that childhood means a lot because you are young. You are “gold” with youth, but you can’t be physically youthful for eternity, for you have to grow up. Like sunset, you are golden but it has to become night; dark and cold.

I also think that it intends clearly about not the years of experience, but how you face everything that comes into life. New things are only new for sometime, then they get worn out and become a part of your everyday life, you no longer notice or value them. This means you should try to see these moments if you want to stay “golden”… see the beauty in life, discover new things and never get fed up with the small and great miracles of life.

I come to my conclusion; appreciate what you have in life because you’ll never live it again.