In my advanced old age (152 years YOUNG) , <br /> I find that I need 'Reading Glasses ' lately! - - - <br /> This is about a friend that died too young! (81) <br /> (I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale, too!) <br />______________________________________________ <br />______________________________________________ <br /> A smattering of snow, <br /> white just doesn't bother me, <br /> I know how it got here, <br /> and I loved every minute of it. <br /> <br /> In my impending blindness, <br /> I see better than I ever have before, <br /> I just wish I knew it way back when, <br /> But, of course I didn't ... <br /> Well, that's not really true, <br /> - - - I saw it coming! <br /> <br /> Most folks call it spring, <br /> to me, it is a smattering of green, <br /> as long as I can see it, <br /> I love every minute of it. <br /> ... can you blame me? <br /> <br /> My hand is getting sort of fuzzy, <br /> when I hold it out now, <br /> but, it's not like the song said any more... <br /> it's not a bright, ... bright, ... sunshiney day! <br /> I can see that it's not there, <br /> a little more each day! <br /> <br /> The sense of sight was the only one, <br /> I swore I'd never live without, <br /> It is funny how opinions change sometimes! <br /> ... or maybe not that funny! <br /> <br /> My spectacles are buying time, <br /> and I'm ashamed of me for laughing at the <br /> kids that had to wear the ' Coke bottle ' - - - <br /> kind of glasses, when I was growing up! <br /> <br /> I am pretty sure that I'll be told, <br /> that this is all inside my head, <br /> - when, in fact, these very words are <br /> getting hard for me to see, <br /> the smatterings are soon to be, <br /> all that I can see ... <br /> but... unlike many other people... <br /> <br /> I HAD life in my eyes once, <br /> and always in my dreams!<br /><br />Barry Van Allen<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/dimmer-for-j-b/
