time ends
wondrous things that are learned in a life time, hmm? i believe that in a life time one will come to overcome many steps of knowledge. i am sitting here in the senior's center visiting a friend. her grandfather is president here. funny kid that i am, i tend to rather enjoy the company of old folks. standing around long enough, helping then where ever is the need, gives a great satisfaction to me. i think them as a source of information, something i can tap into and know a little something special before i have to make the mistake to discover it. i still fear more greatly than most danger in life the coming of old age.
i wish to be younger and younger, to gain as much knowledge before another day had departed with the sun setting. yet, as you laugh because i am seventeen, i cry because i am seventeen. another day has passed me again and what has been done about it?
what will become of the aged and old? one day, after troubles, laughing, and dancing comes to pass, will i dance again? Will i outlive my husband, and cry alone? would i die in a house full of laughter, or in a quiet nursing home? i should not be having these dreadful thoughts of future, but i fear growing old. i do not wish to be lonely and hushed in a home, but to laugh loud and scream with giddy foolery as the days pass i wish to only be happy and dream of happiness to come. i fear to be shaky, and dim-witted. remembering the 'old days' instead of living the current ones. making a memory should continue.
oh for the heavens rain down! aren't i a silly kid? to be dwelling this agony before time. hey! i have seventy years until this party slows down! or mostly, do i hope. God willing i will not die young. i wish to marry and have children grow up in a happy home. so many starry-eyed hopes and dreams to yet discover and fulfill. i do wish most of all that many other people think of the same thoughts. it would be a devastation to so many to be lost young. pray for the families dealing with a young death, i just cannot imagine the pain.
there are too many who fear death, i do not. i fear the time before that. i fear my life to end while i am still living. hold me lord, in those times and for these times at present for others.
zi
