<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=443250" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That 'Senior Citizen' Thing</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">That 'senior citizen' thing, <br>Isn't easy for many to face and address.<br>And...<br>I am not comfortable with it yet.<br>Not to cling onto it like it is mine.<br>I am not prepared to declare, <br>Total ownership of it.<br>I am told I can still 'pass' for 55.<br>And that's young and radiant, <br>When one is...<br>On the fringes of showing 'maturity'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And as my aches and pains, <br>Make attempts to ignore a fading youth...<br>Slowly leaving my consciousness, <br>With loud professions of my obsessiveness...<br>I know, <br>Is no longer in that hip hop stage! <br>And has gone.<br>I feel time has crept upon me, <br>And has done me wrong.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But...<br>I aint crying about it.<br>Not in public anyway.<br>And if I do it is raining! <br>I tell people then, <br>How I enjoy the feeling of nature.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That 'senior citizen' thing, <br>Was never on my agenda when I was in my teens.<br>Nor did aging appear in my dreams...<br>When I sought ambitiously, <br>To waste as much time as possible.<br>It was not a topic of excitement.<br>Nor a subject to defend.<br>Back in those days when age was taken for granted.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And then, <br>Overnight...<br>My eyesight needed correction.<br>I had to wear glasses 'with' bi-focals.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My digestion needed anti-oxidents with more fiber.<br>And for no apparent reason, <br>I would stumble into buildings and trees.<br>Losing my balance.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That 'senior citizen' thing, <br>Isn't easy for many to face and address.<br>And...<br>I am not comfortable with it yet.<br>Not to cling onto it like it is mine.<br>I am not prepared to declare, <br>Total ownership of it.<br>I am told I can still 'pass' for 55.<br>And that's young and radiant, <br>When one is...<br>On the fringes of showing 'maturity'.<br>Someone...<br>Like myself, <br>For example.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</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=443250" data-title="That 'Senior Citizen' Thing de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="That 'senior citizen' thing, Isn't easy for many to face and address. And... I am not comfortable with it yet. Not to cling onto it like it is mine. I am not prepared to declare, Total ownership of it. I am told I can still 'pass' for 55. And th..."></div> </div> </div>

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