Six decades
living and being
part of sunlight and clouds
and happy and sad and surprised
so much of good and bad
but
still so much left to learn and
still so sheltered in so many ways.
I am stubborn and tenacious and gentle and creative and
flawed and feisty and graceful and clumsy.
But here, nonetheless, for the ones who want or need
my presence and presents and patience.
I have had adventures and people who have come and gone.
I am happy about the ones who have stayed all along-
for the ride, for the food, for the laughs, for the words of comfort,
for whatever it was they got that they needed from me at the time.
Simplicity and wonder are what I am-for what it is worth.
money or success hasn't been a motivator so there wasn't much of that
in these six decades, but what has been necessary has been there always!
the world has changed a lot in these sixty years.
I saw a lot of beauty fade from the earth.
New inventions seem confusing and sometimes unnecessary to me.
why haven't there been cures or improvements in all this time?
-lately
it seems like we as the human race are walking backwards
when I see the news I am not seeing evolving or tolerance
or any move toward peace.
But in spite of this, I am an optimist
and have thought about the end of the story- mine as well as the earth's.
I am hoping that in the next six decades there will be
renaissance, cures, tolerance, beauty, joy, and less anger.
But then, I was born during a hurricane.
I know what winds of change can do.
I have lived sixty years,
and I have learned that hope is one of the great gifts
But I don't know everything yet.
