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I wonder where the years went
The years of Innocence with little worries
The days have gone
Moments have flashed past
I have grown older
I look back at yesterday
Oh how I thought I could shape the "tomorrow" then
I used to think I could achieve anything I put my mind to
Life seemed so easy like it was in cartoons
Dreams were conceived
Plans hatched
Most of which have become wishful thinking as I have come to realise
I remember with nostalgia
The times I was younger
When life wasn't so hard or so I thought
Now here wondering why I grew up
What really is the incentive for growing
Responsibilities, bills and societal expectations
These now take away the joy of "adulting"
Oh if I could turn back the hands of time
I wish I was younger
When my troubles were fewer
And friends truer

scarphase:
I wonder where the years went
The years of Innocence with little worries
The days have gone
Moments have flashed past
I have grown older
I look back at yesterday
Oh how I thought I could shape the "tomorrow" then
I used to think I could achieve anything I put my mind to
Life seemed so easy like it was in cartoons
Dreams were conceived
Plans hatched
Most of which have become wishful thinking as I have come to realise
I remember with nostalgia
The times I was younger
When life wasn't so hard or so I thought
Now here wondering why I grew up
What really is the incentive for growing
Responsibilities, bills and societal expectations
These now take away the joy of "adulting"
Oh if I could turn back the hands of time
I wish I was younger
When my troubles were fewer
And friends truer

Thumbs up poet. Please do not forget the importance of structuring. Your poem should be in stanzas except you wanted to write a villanelle or sort. Either you arranged them in quatrains, octaves, sestet, quintets... And please don't forget your punctuations, It'll help readers to know if there is enjambment or not. Thanks.