Who died yesterday at the age of seventeen <br />Of complications from Progeria <br /> <br />“Be O.K. with what you can’t do, because there is so much you can do.” <br /> <br />I watch on YouTube the young man who looks something like an old man <br />He does not want to be pitied <br />He explains his way in Happiness <br /> <br />Humbled I think that there are so many things <br />I an old man still have <br />That he will never have <br /> <br />Sorrow comes <br />I am ashamed of myself <br /> <br />He lived such a short life <br />And with so many difficulties <br /> <br />I will try in the future to focus less <br />On all I have not done and probably can never do <br /> <br />Life and disease are merciless <br />The young man is gone <br /> <br />I am an old man still alive <br />I still can write a poem for myself <br />And for the memory of another <br />Of the many teachers <br />I have had in the wisdom of life <br />I am not sure I have been able to learn from.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lesson-from-sam-berns-of-blessed-memory/
