When Life Throws You a Curve

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Open Poetry #50

When Life Throws You a Curve

Gunslinger
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since 1999-10-09

Posts 901
TX, USA

0 posted 2019-03-15 02:27 AM

Looking in the mirror, takes me back in time.
To days before the gray hair, and all the worry lines.
To days when I was footloose, wild, and fancy free.
But the heavy hand of time has made a wretched wreck of me.

A cowboy, and a drifter, a fool by any name;
Trying to get my trophy in the Loser’s Hall of Fame.
Love them fast and leave them, hearts broken by my lies-
Then one day I turned sixty, much to my surprise.

I have a lot of memories, a lifetime’s worth in fact-
And an awful lot of living, in my lifetime I have packed.
And now I’m old and lonely, that’s just what I deserve-
The cost of striking out, when life throws you a curve.

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
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1 posted 2019-03-15 09:13 AM

60 is sure an eye opener, and I enjoyed your candor.

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