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Vanishing Youth by R.S. Westeren


Vanishing Youth
By
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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