Kenneth MATTOON Poet Quintain (English)

Retirement

67 years 8 months, you are now of age
What achievements have you to gage
Married twice children there are four
What legacy is left as you walk out the door

Bowler. Firefighter, part time clown
Carpenter, DPW worker, man with a frown
Wonderful daughter, 2 boys and one stepson
To most this would be a lottery won

A failed engagement, divorce, a marriage of 41 years
Look back on my life, bring on the tears
Take a good long look and you clearly see
 sixty-seven years, not where you thought you’d be

Clock counting down, retirement looms
A new chapter in life about to bloom
Pension set, financially sound
Damn I am not ready to just sit around

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Panagiota Romios July 11, 2025 at 7:18 PM Well done! I am probably weird, but I can to look forward now rather than backwards. I wrote about my life already in my pal, so that somehow was a completion for me on any topic, but of course it look creepy in my phone again I know that. I hope to live in the future and 67 is very young by the way some people don’t even make it to 60. My cousin, a handsome dude was a four-year-old race, car driver, and he died of day. Good gool to acknowledge our pa£5 Pangie