<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=575214" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Aging Man</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘The Aging Man’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The aging man sat on the concrete seat<br>Outside the hidden mountain cottage<br>The seat where generations had sat before<br>A family party going on inside the cottage<br>He sits and ponders his future<br>As generations have done before<br>Some chose the priesthood<br>Others opted for foreign climes<br>Some had gone to war<br>None of the family who had left<br>Had ever returned home<br>The eldest, as he was, of each generation<br>Stayed at home on the farm<br>He thought, this he might change<br>He wasn’t sure if he wanted<br>Another family member<br>Stuck on this mountain<br>In this out of the way cottage<br>That they called the family home<br>But he never felt at home<br>Someone standing on the doorstep<br>Shouts come in son<br>It is your eighteenth birthday party<br>You should be in here<br>He went back to the party<br>The family were in full spirits<br>Happy to see him grown<br>How will he tell them<br>He is going to break with tradition<br>A heavy burden for one so young<br>What a weight on his shoulders<br>For him, the aging man</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Michael Micmac Mccrory</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Micmac+Mccrory">Michael Micmac Mccrory</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=575214" data-title="The Aging Man de Michael Micmac Mccrory" data-description="‘The Aging Man’ The aging man sat on the concrete seat Outside the hidden mountain cottage The seat where generations had sat before A family party going on inside the cottage He sits and ponders his future As generations have done before Som..."></div> </div> </div>

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