Here lies my past. Good-bye I have kissed it;
Thank you, kids. I wouldn’t have missed it.

In Nash’s characteristically light, rhymed voice, the speaker treats the past as something affectionately concluded rather than mourned. “Here lies my past” echoes the language of epitaphs, but the tone is playful and grateful: the past is not a burden to be exhumed, but a chapter to be acknowledged, kissed goodbye, and left at rest. The direct address—“Thank you, kids”—suggests a retrospective glance at family life, with children as the defining feature of the years being put behind. The final line (“I wouldn’t have missed it”) frames parenthood and time’s passage as worth the trouble, turning nostalgia into a compact statement of acceptance and appreciation.