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LIFELONG PROCESS

 

You may call it a number

Etched in stone at a cemetery

Way before you’re gone.

Some think it is a state of mind –

Imagining yourself preternaturally young

But it is neither.

Rather a lifelong process

Of maintaining health, dignity and clarity

Balancing all of existence

Making the best of all circumstances

Breathing fully and completely

With compassion for all

Not just those close

            Purchase extra years

            At the store of commitment

            Where you can improve your odds

            With correct investments

            Diet, exercise, rest, purpose

            Kindness and truthfulness in balance

            Neither circumspect or confrontational

A slice of sun

Peers through gaps in cumulus

Which cloud and obscure truth.

A saint with a stained shirt.

We stumble at times

Pushing ourselves past the roadblocks

Out into the world we seek to see

            Where it requires a personality –

            One willing to express these complexities

            Without self-deception.

            So age is a number

            And not a measure of life            

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