Wednesday, January 1, 2020

Happy Birthday! Carl!

 
Happy Birthday! Carl!
(January 2, 2020 (73!-Wow!))
 
Long-time! Long-way!---from somewhere to…”now”-here!? I reckon-so!
 
Myriad---Dawns! Sunrises! Noon! Eves! Midnights!...Live! Love! & Laugh!
 
How might a “poor”-kid (with all the world at his feet) become so non-materialistic!?
 
I loved baseball! Threw anything my little hand could hold: Rocks! Sticks! Balls!
 
Listened to Cardinal-games on the radio! Went to a “few” at Busch-Stadium!
 
On the occasion of my 5th-Christmas, I got a Rawlings baseball-glove! Wow!
 
I cherished that (sacred) leather-mitt; wore it-out playing-ball! Fun!-Fun!-Fun!
 
When I turned 12 (7-years later) I had earned enough money to buy a new-one!
 
I still have the original glove; Lady-Candice put it in a shadow-box! Thank-you!
 
I don’t have much use for the “material” of this-life; just an old ball-glove. Maybe!?
 
Built some mighty-fine homes! Swimming-pools! Farms! Horses! Pets! Travel!
(All of “it” nice---the-Truth!?...all of it done for those I love in this-life! It was so-easy!)
 
Yeah!---I play the ole “lottery”! Every-day!...Just so…I can give all of it…away!
 
I’ll take the pink-blush glow of a new-dawn! An ocean-wave! A mountain-summit!
It just doesn’t get any better---than so-simple…for (simple-humble)-me! Amen!
 
Oh! Yeah!---That Golden-crown of mine!? Uh!...So very proud of “it”!
 
Metaphoric! (fiction) It-is! But, crowned with 7-precious jewels! Which I-cherish!
 
To wit:
Lovely-Lady Candice Leah! Beth! Becky! Z. Tyler! Lauren! Lexi! Anna Marie!
(And---to add, now…Graig! Alexander! Lovely-Lady Jennifer!)
 
This is my-“life”! They are my-“life”! These “measures”---I-treasure!...Amen!
 
So!?---Happy Birthday! Old-man!...Proud! of a well-lived longevity! Thank you!
 
Good! Better! Best! with Live! Love! Laugh! through Faith! Family! Freedom!
 
Amen!


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