Touch Me Softly ~ Don't Grow Too Old ~ Friendship

Don't ever grow too old for birthdays

Fun-things that you used to do

Don't give up your dreams because you

Feel that they have not come true.

Don't forget the sound of laughter

Or the love in someone's eyes

Don't trade memories for pleasures

All that in a moment dies.

Don't give up your zest for living

Saying you are much too old

Is this what you feel or is it

Something that you have been told?

There's a valley deep within us

Where there is eternal Spring

Where there is no sound of sorrow

And the birds forever sing.

Though your gait is not as steady

Now as once it used to be

And your vision's clouding over

Things you used to clearly see.

Do not let the weight of decades

Turn you into bitter gall

For with age there comes a wisdom

That's a blessing to us all.

Hold your years up like a banner

Wave it brightly in the sun

When folks tell you life is over

Tell them it has just begun.

Loneliness can never touch you

If you don't allow it to

And in sharing love with others

. . . God will give it back to you.

~Grace E. Easley

MIDI: Heart Desire by MARGI HARRELL
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