Life is Fleeting

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    Life is Fleeting

     Life is Fleeting

     

     

    Oh, I’ve been blessed,

    white, male, American.

    Yes, thank you, Jesus,

    I’ve been blessed,

    two great children,

    a girl and a boy,

    good kids,

    smart like their Mother,

    now both off to college,

    with me as happy

    as I could be

    in our empty nest

    with my beautiful wife,

    who has put up with me

    all these twenty-six years,

    putting up with all

    my idiosyncrasies,

    never asking me to change,

    always there for me,

    with her endless smiles

    and warm, sensual touch.

    Boy, have I’ve been blessed

    working hard

    climbing up

    the slippery slope

    of the corporate ladder,

    now V.P. of Sales,

    with my corner office

    and young secretary,

    who knows exactly how

    and when I want my coffee;

    and soon I’ll retire to a life

    of playing golf

    at the Country Club

    whenever I want.

    Yes, life’s been good,

                                        but

    sitting here reading that

    the circus is coming to town

    makes me think back

    to when I was a boy,

    such fond memories

    of the traveling circus

    that came through our town

    every year without fail.

    I would get a free pass

    for watering the elephants,

    how I loved those elephants.

    Looking back now, sitting here,

    it might have served me well

    to have run off

    and joined that circus,

    escaping into that world of

    lions, tigers, and dancing bears.

    Boy, I would have made

    a great circus clown.                                                                

     

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    knight4696 commented on Life is Fleeting

    01-26-2010

    Charles, Very nice reflections ... Does sound that life is good and yes fleeting - and the circus sounds like fun. But all in all - sounds ike life ha streated you very well and we all have our days of reflection that make us wonder what if? VP huh? Hey I'm not a pretty young secreatary - but I could make you an awesome assistant - you hiring? lol! :) Great job my friend! Ken

    Teardrops commented on Life is Fleeting

    01-26-2010

    Maybe you would have liked a little more fun in your life and now you have it all or do you great poem Marie

    In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.

    Franz Kafka (1883-1924) Czech writer.

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