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Acceptance, Aging, Atheism, Balls, Birches, God, Joy, Love, Nature, Peace, Power, powerless, Robert Frost, Spirituality, Truth
As I see and feel balls sagging
from right to left, left to right,
I like to think someone’s been
swinging them.
But swinging them doesn’t bend
them down to stay. Nature does
that. Time, age: you wake up, and
your rocks dropped.
***
This can be a sad event, and was
for me, especially when I felt
nothing much happened in my
youth, no great wear and tear
that would leave an item or thing
stretched out or overused,
necessitating the sag, precipitating
a change, a drop, the swing—
Sad!!
I turned thirty years old, and
they dropped.
It was not at the brink of death,
closing in on very old age but
thirty years in, thirty times around
the sun, and they sagged!!!
I wrote several books, a screenplay,
thought of all different ways not
to think of my sagging rocks;
wrote about kids, a Kids World,
figured I was done so give the world
over to the tight-balled and perky
youths, think of myself less and less,
that’s it the ticket is to be more and
more Selfless!
***
That didn’t work, and I stayed depressed,
did the twelve steps on the problem
at last, and it went away for a time, the
depression about sagging—but then it
came back with a vengeance!
***
Then one day, it went away. I accept
my sagging balls because they’re here
to stay.
What’s more, I’m powerless over them,
my age, and this rock spinning through space,
giving me cool ideas to write as long as
I walk on her and thank.
The best way out of a good depression
is to do nothing, wait for it to pass,
accept all things and Thank.
Bill Watkins, Traveling Poet 