Survivor

I am a survivor
Still alive despite
Dicing with Fate yet
Again over the last six
Decades learning slowly
How lucky I am to be writing
My poor poems amazed musing
On how we do not appreciate
What we have until we don’t,
Missing all those we have
Lost over the years but
We do not get to say.
Man proposes, God
Disposes. All we
Can do is what
We gotta do
The best
Way we
Can
Acting
As we almost
Instinctively know
Is ethical but is
Really just old
Aesop’s
Fables made
Movies novels poems
Short stories sermons all
About what is right and
Proper to do versus
What our hearts
Desire our eyes
See our ears
Hear and
What
Touches us
If we survive yet
Another day
Thankful
To be a
Survivor.