Life Is Short

Life is short and time goes fast
And so, before you know it,
The future waits to join the past – 
At least, if we don’t blow it.

It’s hard to leap into a place
Where different ways await us
And we may struggle keeping pace
With habits that may date us.

So grow or stagnate, that’s the choice,
Though change might make us queasy,
Yet all our doubts should have a voice,
For aging isn’t easy.

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Date: 4/7/2022 11:34:00 AM
Your poem is wonderful, Ilene. Great rhyming, too! Aging is not easy, nor is change. The past is usually remembered as kinder, but now I wonder if it really was. At least we were younger--that's pretty huge. :)
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Date: 3/27/2022 3:24:00 AM
You can say this again! "aging is not easy!"
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Date: 3/19/2022 8:20:00 AM
We all need to get on board with change, at any age. We can't live long without it. Good advice, Ilene. Write On! Bill
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Date: 3/16/2022 3:56:00 PM
This is truly a classic, Ilene. 'The future wants to join the past' ... 'Yet our doubts should have a voice.' So resonant. FAVE for me. Thank you, and Happy Purim!!
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Ilene Bauer
Date: 3/16/2022 5:22:00 PM
Thank you, Gershon! Much appreciated! Happy Purim to you as well - I think I’d fail any drug test because of all the poppyseed hamentashen I’ve been eating…
Date: 3/15/2022 11:25:00 AM
Old age is a breeze when compared to being a teenager, but I enjoyed your poem! Aloha!
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Date: 3/16/2022 5:24:00 PM
Ha! I’m not sure I agree with you - I kind of liked being a teenager (or maybe I’m just blocking out all the bad parts)…
Date: 3/14/2022 5:28:00 PM
Hi Ilene....love this poem very well said....no aging isn't easy that is for sure! Debx
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Ilene Bauer
Date: 3/16/2022 5:25:00 PM
Thanks so much for the comment, Deb! I appreciate you taking the time to write…
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