Saturday, May 30, 2026

Experienced, Not Expired: Poem

 

Experienced, Not Expired

You can put expiration date

On the elderly fade.

You still balance wet and dry.

You do not let your heart cry.

Instead, you work hard,

You use music and art

To keep on with inevitable growth.

Continuing education could not be forced.

I do not wait for miracles

But do not want to miss the ones

That walk quietly beside me.

People say broken things

Keep the deepest maps inside them,

Due dates and destination.

True, true observation.

Are you sure that you cannot expire? –

Yes, I am tired and retired,

Not expired!

Listen, energy, skin, and glowing

Improve just in two nights

To stop aging from growing.

After all, experienced,

Not expired!

Tomshinsky@2026

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