If there’s an age

I’d like to be,

I think I’d chose

to stay forty.

Old enough to

know to say no.

Young enough,

still plenty of go.

 

Time would be mine

to do great things.

Young enough to

still have dreams.

Slay a dragon,

sail a sea

and still a chance

to just be me.

 

Gone are the days

of fear and of dread,

of wearing wrong cloths,

or of what might be said.

Now is the time

when I know who is who.

Now is the time

that I know what to do.

So I’ll say it once more,

if t’were up to me.

I think I’d chose to stay

FORTY!!!

 
 

David Garlick, Victoria, October, 1990

For John Miller. M.D.