[Critique Group 2] Emailing: Capping off six decades-For 4/18/17 critique session

[James]

Capping off six decades 
C By Brad Corallo
Word count 193

It hasn't been a six story mountain.
Rather an undulating roller coaster track
with easily a thousand tales to tell.
Time like a concertina, expanding and compressing
such a mixed bag of bitter sweet!
Friendships, experiments and epiphanies.
Lovers, marriages and pets.
Great wines, riveting books, successes and failures.
Magic and miracles;
depression, tedium and loss!

Immobilizing fears;
Processed through therapy mills and just doing.
Winter Polar Bear plunges for my own charity. 
Poems, prayers and promises
as the lost singer sang.
Crystal clear perceptions and
clouded, confused and absent hours. 

Soaring on wings of love.
Sinking under oceans of crushing loneliness.
Beliefs: there is nothing after this, 
But there must be.
Spiritual quest; earnest study
and derangement of the senses like Rimbaud. 

Ten thousand songs later
loved from seven to almost sixty.
Playing memory tricks;
that is one of their new ones.
Wait a minute
that was thirty years ago!

And what about tomorrow?
Things: wonderful and terrible are all eventual.
And though you can plan for your future,
you can't plan your future.
In the final analysis, There's only
Now!  



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