Return of the selfish

Job 32:9 Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

 

You’re moving into town again ... what will your influence be?

Will you pick up where you left off ... a couple of years ago?

Things won’t be the same you know for there are constant changes

Surely you should be the first ... to understand that and know.

 

You will return more affluent to a place where the opposite glides.

Most of us are better off with less in the bank.

How will you adjust to that in forms of integration?

As you keep counting what you gathered walking the plank?

 

Aging is a process that is often misunderstood.

Instead of getting wiser we’re directed by our past.

Is it any wonder that going forth moves us backward?

Close the point where it started and it approaches very fast.

 

Jan Wienen

 

This poem is about: 
Me
My community

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