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Created on: July 28, 2010
Why have the years passed so quickly? It seems just yesterday I was graduating from High School.
I never had any aches or pains but as I have aged I feel pains I never new I could have,
They call these the Golden Years but there is nothing Golden about them.
I try to put my aches and pains out of my mind.
I don't complain because everyone else has some type of aches and pains themselves.
I want to age graciously with no complaints and no regrets and here I am complaining just a little.
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Poetry: Aging
Years slowly settle on us, like the dust
In layers first invisible, then white
Borne by the unsuspecting air, it must
Upon
Aging doesn't bring just wrinkles and gray hair
But wisdom and experience - a powerful pair
When I look in the mirror as
What is lost, what is gained
As our years now near the end?
Plan for tomorrow, not beyond
No future 'round the bend
Dreams
The room is still
The light shines through the blinds
We wake, the sun glows, the birds sing
The cat stirs
it winds its tail
You ask, "How are you?" Before I answer, let me say:
I have always had a vegetable garden - for over fifty years
I have watched
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