What I appreciate
Most
About being this age……
Almost 80
You can see three circles?
Two with 8
One with 0
Now, me looking for finding
Meaning
There is no meaning ….only finding
One time wanted to live
To 100
That is my favorite
Mavis Staples song
Got to make it to 100
Don’t know if I will
Make it to 80
79 is close
My age left me.
Seeing more than
I thought
End of segregation
End of Vietnam War
End of Cold War
End of Legal Hate
So here I am
Reaching 80
War, hate and
Maybe segregation
All coming back…..
What I learned to
Appreciate
Were the small moments
Without hate or
War
I live in my world
A hopeful world
Without hate or conflict
Several close deaths
With cancer
Made me realize
I can live with myself
And with some others