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To Grow Older

June 06, 2015Filed under art#poetryMarkdown source
To grow older is not to fade
        unless you make it so—
    rather, to ripen slowly into wisdom
        as like an aging tree.
So let me dig deep in life’s passing
        with roots down by still streams,
    until I someday stand, hoary and kind,
        like an oak in winter.