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Doing the Old Thing
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Doing the Old Thing |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana 
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growing old is fearful for many still if we live long enough we grow old, so what? your eyesight is not as it once was still you can spot a hottie fifty feet away and yes it is a cliché to say her beauty is her wealth even so she too will one day fade but as you stare at her you feel strength surging within too soon she is gone and your strength subsides minute by embarrassing minute each day brings about another day older not what we dreamed about during youth’s fiery flame so yes we begin to mellow out softened with the sunset of our lives a golden day’s regression now looking at the world from a lofty height we now speak prophetic for we’ve witnessed things from before we try to warn no one cares to listen they must find out on their own as did we we weep quicker than we used to but not about the years before the nearby future takes us by the hand we spend lingering days forgetting how we felt when young at last the final curtain is drawn we become phantoms of who we were and somewhere we hear the world is giving a standing ovation to a unfilled shell a last breath holding responsible the living man ©June 20, 2014 / Jerry Pat Bolton ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Pretty heavy stuff ya got here ole' timer. Your impressions and expressions always make me think. Lori  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Thanks Lori, I doubt this is all that heavy, but it was cheap California burgundy influenced. Heh.Heh ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Maybe you should try some cheap California pot and get high instead...it may lighten your thoughts...or you will just plain forget to write about it! LOL  |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
I'll take a pass on the dope, Lori. Somehow it seems I got up on the wrong side of everything this morning. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
oh? How so? As for myself I'd just go back to bed and start over.  Lori |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Nice write, Jerry. What you have penned is so true. Somewhat as old King Solomon wrote in Ecclesiastes. Nowhere to go but straight ahead; there is nothing new under the sun. And sure “still you can spot a hottie fifty feet away” even through a set of lenses. Thank you, bro! Enjoyed the write. JL |
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JerryPat2 Member Laureate
since 2011-02-06
Posts 16975South Louisiana |
Appreciate the comments, JL, very much. Thank you. ~*~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~*~ |
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