Remember,
summer seemed forever,
when we were ten years old?
That’s how youth felt,
while we swaggered
our way through it,
knowing it would last forever,
giving no thought
to the forever fleeting experience
of being:
young,
fit,
healthy,
and strong
Middle age creeps up on us
silently
as we’re too preoccupied
with work to notice.
By the time we acknowledge middle age
we tip over into being old.
Old age endures until it doesn’t.
Each new decade
brings fresh revelations,
of our mortality
until that frail mortality
is irrevocably proven,
and we step off the stage,
to the cheers,
the moans,
or the indifference
of the world
swirling around
our brief excursion
as a flower in the field.
Published by Dr. Robert Owens
My name is Robert Owens I am a retired house painter, retired pastor, a musician, composer, author, a college professor. I hold an Associate Degree in Biblical Studies, a Bachelor Degree in Religious Education, a Bachelor Degree in History, a Master’s Degree in Religious Education, a Master’s Degree in History, and a Ph. D. in Organizational Leadership. Dr. Owens teaches History, Political Science, Religion, and Leadership. My books include; Five novels in the America’s Trojan War series, America’s Odyssey: You Can’t Go Home Again, America’s Odyssey II: You must Go Home Again, America’s Steel Brigade, and America’s Armageddon. Six books on Political Science: The Constitution Failed, Constitutional Philosophy in Action, Then Came Trump, Drain the Swamp, Make America Great Again – AGAIN a book that chronicles Thirty-three of the positive accomplishments of President Trump’s first term that the media buried and the Biden Administration is erasing from History books, and America I’m Glad I knew Ya. Five, History Books: America Vol. One: Colonial History, The Azusa Street Revival, The More Things Change the More They Stay the Same (describes how the elites in America use presidential assassinations to create and sustain a secular political religion), America Won the Vietnam War! and, Skid Marks in the Sky: The Legendary Life and Hippie Adventures of Bobby Backstreet. A book on Leadership: COGIC History: The Dark Years. Three books designed to strengthen and encourage Christians called Faith, Hope, and Love. A four book commentary on the book of Ephesians. Four books of poetry Every Farmers Got a Gas Pump, Floating Through Time, The Fruit of the Tree, and God Is. A series entitled; New Old Sayings. These are books of 1,000 proverbs each compiled by Dr. Owens over a period of more than sixty years. Eight have been published so far and it is projected to include ten book in all. And of course the universally acclaimed: The Complete Encyclopedia of Socialist Wisdom.
All of Dr. Owens’ books are available in paperback and kindle at: https://www.amazon.com/author/drrobertowens
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