Tuesday, June 30, 2020

THE LAST HARRAH




I will not look on age and scream
With dried up lips no longer kissed,
But welcome in the golden age
And defy death with folded fist.

These lines, you see, upon my face,
Were carved there by an artist’s touch,
And each rut that’s carved throughout…
A pathway walked, with memory clutch.

This mind, that once, was sharp and keen...
Now lives, mostly, in yesteryears,
But age won’t take my dignity…
Nor remove, from me, those gone by years.

Oh, youth, you passed so quickly by…
While old age seems to linger,
But you won’t get the best of me
Or keep me in this rocker.

So, age, can you hear me scream
And in your face defy?
For death will not come for me…
Without hearing my outcry.






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