Glad and Young

you shall above all things be glad and young

For if you're young, whatever life you wear

it will become you; and if you are glad

whatever's living will yourself become.”

― E.E. Cummings

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forever young I am not

I feel my age these days

of waking up

with neck and hips and

knees that complain

vehemently

and yet there is a youth

who never ages

the dreamer

the striver

the one who wants to do

everything

and wants to do it

now

and there is a joy

that I can wear

I am what I think

and when I think joy

it comes on

angel wings

and fills my

soul

and I become

joy