Gershon Wolf Poet Couplet

The Future, Staring Right At Me

A pretty young girl walked right up to me
    stuck in her finger in my belly and decreed

  'You're old and useless, you should die'
    but before I could cry, the pretty girl let fly:

  'The future belongs to us, the young and the strong'
    ~ and it's not remotely possible that she's wrong

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Linda Alice Fowler August 14, 2023 at 3:13 PM Thankfully I am surrounded by caring and loving young people gw. laf :)

Michael Tor August 12, 2023 at 11:10 PM I hope she gets the same treatment when she is old Gershon lol...

Judy Ball August 12, 2023 at 2:53 PM Hmmmm Then again some tribes value their old people for their knowledge and wisdom. I wonder if she realizes she will not be young and pretty for long. We are all subject to the circle of life. Good one Gershon. God Bless, JB Gershon Wolf August 12, 2023 at 8:13 PM You never know... Some of these stars who are 80+ don't look a day over 55...

Joe Maverick August 12, 2023 at 10:21 AM Well shes welcome to any future we are likely To get I reckon specially if she partakes fully We might live her out still.' Aint things.? well.. Rather sad.! Gershon Wolf August 12, 2023 at 8:13 PM Right. Ain't things. :)

John Lawless August 12, 2023 at 5:09 AM maybe she was just searching for more lint to complete an quilt Gershon Wolf August 12, 2023 at 8:14 PM Right. To complete a quilt. ??????????

Bj Legros Kelley August 11, 2023 at 8:38 PM Life is a vapor, and she has no idea how time flies, she will be older one day too (hopefully), and probably (again hopefully) ashamed. So sad though. The only ones that may truly care about her are the elders, and it seems she wouldn't mind if we were all hastened to the grave. Gershon Wolf August 12, 2023 at 8:16 PM I'm off on a grave mission, B.J. ~ Seriously

Shirley Hawkins August 11, 2023 at 8:33 PM I wonder if she will have the same opinion when she is old; she has much to learn. Gershon Wolf August 12, 2023 at 8:25 PM She certainly does have what to learn... Then again, so do we all...

Akkina Downing August 11, 2023 at 8:30 PM Once upon a time, a little girl asked me why I was so skinny?! The wind might blow me away. I replied, wouldn’t that be nice?! I would love to fly. And she giggled :) sometimes kids say things out of curiosity unbeknownst of how one might feel. Gershon Wolf August 12, 2023 at 8:18 PM Kids do 'say the darndest things.' ~ Art Linkletter

Kim Rodrigues August 11, 2023 at 5:59 PM Perhaps but there is a use for us. When that young girl falls into tears, when her life feels like its falling apart and her elder is there to catch her, encourage…tell her, dear blow your nose here… Gershon Wolf August 12, 2023 at 8:19 PM Ah, those practical, pampering mothering instincts pay off in both the short and the long run!