<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414010" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I hear and Reflect</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">A bell tolls sonorously<br> one single chime. Then silence reigns<br>It wakes me from my reverie.<br>Conscious again of aches and pains.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I had lost temporarily<br> in contemplation of the past <br>That single knell reminding me<br> Of the long years which quickly passed.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Before the years caught up with me<br>For old age does not come alone<br>It brings along infirmity.<br>Which hitherto you have not known.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">When you are young you do not know<br>What future lies ahead of you <br>but as you live and learn and grow<br>You will become as others do.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Much more aware than what you were <br>of how your body will re- act.<br>To the stress and strain you bear.<br>That you must think before you act.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Gone is the energy of youth<br>You used to waste without a thought<br>You slowly come to learn the truth<br>That rude health can’t be sold or bought.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As long as I can hear that chime <br>which has disturbed my reverie<br>I can be certain that this time<br> The death knell does not ring for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each day an opportunity<br>To do things I can still do<br> although slow and steadily.<br>My body still allows me to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Although I pay in aches and pains <br>I do not think the price too high.<br>My interest in life remains.<br>I am too busy far, to die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I know I will eventually<br>but do not let it worry me<br>It is the only certainty<br>the bell will toll one day for me.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">23-Nov-08</div><div style="margin:10px 0">http: //<br>blog.mypace.com/poeticpiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Ivor+Or+Ivor.e+Hogg">Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=414010" data-title="I hear and Reflect de Ivor Or Ivor.e Hogg" data-description="A bell tolls sonorously one single chime. Then silence reigns It wakes me from my reverie. Conscious again of aches and pains. I had lost temporarily in contemplation of the past That single knell reminding me Of the long years which quickly ..."></div> </div> </div>

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