Show j if of 1 f t 1 f iri v 0 If i r People I e D Dont Don't on Grow trow G p i eop r f r H Ji c Old only Bodies A SONG OF YOUTH As I 1 walk among you my thoughts thought's return to yesteryear Return to days of singing heartbeat of beautiful hopes and dreams o of f sounds and sensations that only the young may hear and feel To days o of f promise excitement and curiosity Days that ended with the longing and thrill o of f waiting for a new day Oh the wonderment of it all Now I wonder what became o of f it all my song o of f youth Where did it go Why do I no longer hear it But yet as I walk these halls I do once again begin to hear it ever so faintly at first then with each day each smile each Hi There my song becomes stronger and stronger My step becomes light ligh t and my heart sings What is happening I 1 ask and I 1 know then that sometime a long time ago I turned off my heart and forgot how to listen and my song stopped Because I 1 was growing older No but because I 1 forgot how to listen and then how to sing So I was lonely and loneliness becomes a progressive disease A disease that becomes a wall to hold out anyone or anything that might hurt you when this happens the song is no longer there thereto to sing no longer there to hear I 1 walk with your song once again in my heart and though I 1 have reached the September o of f my life because of you I 1 shall be eternally young If I have gained any wisdom from my waste o of f life that would privilege me to advise you it would be to say to you Take the good and add it to your song I If f you do this each day o of f your life your song shall become stronger and stronger until it reaches a crashing crescendo that surely was worth the while and your is the justification o of f your being born Bless you my young friends A dirty old man ETERNAL YOUTH I 1 am young My youth oath is here my youth is mine my youth is the breath oJ of young lungs You say you are old my senior senior Y You Ol sa say at one time you forg forgot of how to listen to your song of young life of heartbeat ana and of sounds and sensations that only the YOU young Jg my hear and feel You tell me my friends and I 1 have helped you because of our youth We iVe did not know for or no one knows how deeply or shallowly lie he affects and influences others Only the tie goddesses of the arts know those secret hearts We know what you make us feel you know what we make you feel Neither of oJus us know what the other feels That which gave us origin left us to fill ourselves es But you sing once again We sin sing with wit you for this You have gained gamed wisdom wisdom- you you have learned to listen to your you r rown own whisperings as well as those around you This u is your rebirth M My senior I 1 am young l If f I have gained any wisdom from my life I would say to you You HYou are still in the process of your own creation You have not grown old for no one ever grows old only bodies grow grow- old Everyday you come once again from the womb womb ever everyday day the word world receives you as i if f with the midwifes midwife's es e's hands Bands People never grow old m my senior senior Life Lift is not a pathway unto death Life LiJe is a living heartbeat that never stops Old age does not exist my senior senior as y you u now see Our fount fountain lin of youth is not a potion The only potion is what we in our own minds and pulsating chests Make this the hymn you cry to your temple Come with me my senior and join me in my eternal youth J J J Tr TT The J h e Voyager |