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The Golden Years We celebrated the years with so many memories, birthdays, funerals…. As we took a stroll through life and archived all the memories we had featured With these golden years We reflected on our retirement after we met ourselves as employees working well with the passing of age Our pasts made choices for us including our lifestyle activities And those choices included low activity, poor diet and a high alcohol intake Realizing how hard it was to fight this process Every day was a repeated expression of events as we looked around and took an inventory of the average senior human being We lived good lives now that we had bad knees, hips, need stents, hearing aids and more which the middle age will never understand We had counterproductive lifestyle behavior that are now affecting our health with choices made for us And somehow with these choices came clinics we built with an assumption of calling it a health-care center having professionals assessing our average senior We served with experience acquired throughout the years These golden years drew us closer to a self-selecting population requiring a routine checkup preciously because they are fairly healthy With these years a discovery of how rare our species are, made a realization of how precious our souls are We were soft, sensitive and had a lovely gesture and we never lost our shine even when we had wrinkles on our faces These years awarded us the opportunity of earning leisure, a time to rest, relaxation and care without an obligation to maintain an economic level defining the young and middle age The second wind painted images which made us fragile, superfluous and infantile taking away our powerful mental and emotional constitution, rejecting stereotypic impulses of others perception of us With everything came time, wisdom, talents to others with an everyday affair of being treated with respect and we had the willpower to strengthen our lifetime challenges adjusting to loss and change of all kinds Poet Masego Nkuna
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