Vanishing Youth by R.S. Westeren

Vanishing Youth

R. S. Westeren

The closet flows over with pieces of yesterday

Baseball gloves that seen dirt, rain and the occasional ball

Sneakers worn and stained from playing tag in the yard

Air long gone from basketballs and volleyballs

Age gives you experiences but also vanishing youth

Suits with wide lapels then so so narrow

Ties followed the same just always the opposite

Colors changes as the season do, sometimes bold other times pastel

Remember when suits were called leisure but were anything but!

Age gives you experiences but also vanishing youth

Waist lines spread and walking gets slower

Staying up late gets to be earlier and earlier

Dinner is now at 4 and breakfast is so early

And now I am saying why do they dress like they do?

Age gives you experiences but also vanishing youth

The choices you make now are the most important

Whether to sit down and wait or to stand up and move

Use your brain and think or mush it will become

Age should not win without at least some kind of a fight

Age gives you experiences but also vanishing youth

So today I will walk and start with the fight

No need to run and beat up the joints

Tonight I will read and exercise the mind

I will push life to the fullest today

Age gives you experiences to help slow the vanishing youth

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