Getting Older

Oh never had I thought
getting older would be like this.

When I was young, I thought
once I would become
an old woman, weary of life, and bent
under the burden of experience
and fading with these last years
that swiftly would pass by
like shadows, and
silent memories.
Oh no ...
Now, as I count my years, I can tell
getting older is not about being old
it's not about resignation
it's not about loosing
the strength I thought was sure only
in days I was counted among
the young.

Well we just change
we change
we change

Oh never had I thought
my life would be so much more
and never weary of me.
Now I find, all these years
I've known this:
my dreams would not get lost.

We just change
we change
we change

Standing up for the right
to be alive, how could it be
that we fall prey to expectations
not made by our own
give away the courage
to become still more ...
no - thank you very much !
Not old and not weary, and not tired of life
are we
standing up for the vision
that we've carried so far ...
as we always knew
life does not get old.

Cannot you see ...

We just change
we change
we change

 

Yes my dear friend, We Change!
* Fly's off.....*
Weee

 

I just found this thread after "responding" to the recent post of "The Desiderata"............It's sure true its JUST "change"!!!! There is nothing bad about aging or the dreaded 'giving up the things of youth' after all! It's just "change" that most of us are ready for anyway!!!! I personally am SO much happier NOW at 53!!!....things of life and politics and mistakes we see in the way "all" is going.....It doesn't HURT so bad.No more phoney people Bother to try to influence me! I have MORE not less,faith in the evolution of mankind. I have more REAL-forever love in my life. I can create MY OWN WORLD with the power of my own being now. It's glorious to BE HERE NOW!!!!haha! Love&Peace& Bless "change" and the power of aging!!!

 

if i may be allowed to post...

im a bit younger than everyone, but i am coming into a realization on how time flies, and all that good stuff.

whe I was a little bit younger, i was a bit intimidated about aging. I just had my 27th birthday, and it made me pause and reflect.....i honestly can say that I am looking foward to every year that I am gifted with, and I am looking towards the wisdom that comes with age. every year, so far, has been better than the last ( for good or ill). And it is inspirational to see elders that take appreciation, rather than intimidation, to every year that they are here. I for one wouldnt trade my age for any other that I have sperienced so far.

In all, I just want to say thank you for the inspiration, and thank you for giving me(and others my age and younger) something to look foward to!!!I am excited......

 

Dolly-I predict your life will run smooth and you will exprience many great things because you take the time to listen-and you have good insight as to how to live good-Enjoy your life Dolly!

 

Live to Ride :sunny: Ride to live

 

Loved your poetry, and it made me think about my story of getting older, and changing. I raised five daughters, and now they are all gone, living elsewhere, and when once I thought they were my whole life, and I would be lonely and depressed when they all left, now I am enjoying my relatively new life, and discovering so much peace and joy. I am getting inspirations to explore and try new things, have recently started my own small hat business, and it is growing , and I am growing too, and I am very content and fullfilled. I have more energy, and am willing to try new things. After 30 years of parenting, this is all so much of an adventure, and each day is another chance to see what happens next. " We change, we change, we change."

 

still amazing to me that at a scant 20 something...bob dylan could write this and know what i'd feel like when i got to be this age....

While riding on a train goin' west,
I fell asleep for to take my rest.
I dreamed a dream that made me sad,
Concerning myself and the first few friends I had.

With half-damp eyes I stared to the room
Where my friends and I spent many an afternoon,
Where we together weathered many a storm,
Laughin' and singin' till the early hours of the morn.

By the old wooden stove where our hats was hung,
Our words were told, our songs were sung,
Where we longed for nothin' and were quite satisfied
Talkin' and a-jokin' about the world outside.

With haunted hearts through the heat and cold,
We never thought we could ever get old.
We thought we could sit forever in fun
But our chances really was a million to one.

As easy it was to tell black from white,
It was all that easy to tell wrong from right.
And our choices were few and the thought never hit
That the one road we traveled would ever shatter and split.

How many a year has passed and gone,
And many a gamble has been lost and won,
And many a road taken by many a friend,
And each one I've never seen again.

I wish, I wish, I wish in vain,
That we could sit simply in that room again.
Ten thousand dollars at the drop of a hat,
I'd give it all gladly if our lives could be like that.

 

as time changes us we in turn change time. we grow old as we produce the young and the circle completes itself.

 

Hey man, how old AM I, anyhoo? Can't remember.

nawww. really. Glad somebody's posting about getting older. It's weird.

A few more aches here and there ... being more careful about straining my back ... got a lot longer perspective and a few new sorts of thoughts. And some of the people I've loved are passed on now.

I keep changing, yeah, and the world does, too.

It really is a good subject for poetry.

 

Ah, being young is beautiful, but
being old is comfortable.

 

I honestly wouldnt be young again unless i could take with me the wisdom I have gained from getting older.
I LOVE being the age I am , I have gatherd all I needed , and now I can relax a little and enjoy those things. My kids are grown and having kids of their own , and I get to enjoy the granbabies , and watch my children do all those things i had to do.....life's a big , beautiful circle.

 

Beautiful poem!

I enjoy the wisdom and experience of age but I don't know, I'd like to have back a young healty body and some of the energy of youth as well.

 

You know what they said, youth is wasted on the young .
BUT you can always drink your energy. LOL ..... I know a bad joke.
PAX

 

that's a lovely poem moving cloud..
'tis only the outside that ages, inside are still the dreams and hopes that we had..
some have been realised, others are yet to come and to be looked forward to..
.

 

Wow! Your sig pic looks like some sort of monster dude, dragging himself up out of the earth.

But i'm a little toasted right now, so...

 

Oh, WOW! And he's trying to grab that OTHER head that almost rolled within his reach, for who knows WHAT nefarious purpose!!!

 

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Getting old sucks big time,

But it's better than the alternative!​

Have fun and play safely!

 

I love your sig pic!!^^

 

Thank you DollyDagger!



Have fun, play safely, and eat your honey!

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Sheryl
Soft and tender, tough and hard ....
Never touched a razor ....
I shall love her always!​