Elton Camp Poet Rhyme

Here I Still Am

Here I Still Am 

By Elton Camp

Dispelling ignorance & dispensing knowledge 
I’ve taught thousands of students at the college

When the older ones of them I happen to meet
They act surprised that I’m still around to greet

If their facial expression I have correctly read
What they mean is, “I thought you were dead.”

But though there has passed many a decade
So far, the Grim Reaper I’ve managed to evade

True, I can’t take stairs two at a time anymore
And I dare not hike in the woods as I did before

But my thinking is right and my memory clear
I sure hope that Alzheimer’s I don’t need to fear

I am still capable of decisions and driving my car
As when young, I haven’t wrecked, at least so far

With my clouded lenses surgically taken out,
I can again enjoy reading and looking about

As long as my obituary you haven’t read
You may safely assume that I’m not dead

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