You are now too old <br />to indulge in arrogance <br /> <br />and yet you are too young <br />to have anything to be arrogant about <br /> <br />you are in mortal peril <br />at the midpoint of a life <br />which is not a life <br /> <br />which has no past and no future <br />for you are not present in it <br /> <br />yet grace abounds <br />and with it, poetry<br /><br />Michael Shepherd<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-to-a-poet-of-middling-age/
