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i used to be a dancer
and now i have cancer
my legs are weak
and it is difficult to jump

growing older is very sad
we miss the things we've had
we wake and it's another day
yesterday has slipped away
with every taken breath
we are closer to our death.

is it wrong to want to be
the picture of vitality
to scorn the lines that time has brought
the scars that mark the war that's fought
with certain inevitability.

it is good to still be happy and smile. i used to have hair and I was very slim.

Steve Jobs
Used to be an Apple
Then he had cancer
Now he is not a dancer
He can't rave
From his iGrave


Cynthias

Hi apple ~

The simple directness in your poem was moving for me. Very poignant.
It sounds as if you wrote it from your own experience and, if so, thank you for your openness and sharing.
Did you do the lovely painting, as well?


~ Lizzy

Thank you Lizzytish and fishfishquaileye...... I am delighted to find a forum with the music of Leonard Cohen, poetry and art. I have moved so many times, had kids, got diverted... I seem to have lost quite a bit of my poetry. People don't really read it anyway... and yes the painting is mine.. it's one of my favorites.. kind of prophetic. I happened to marry a very tall man and have relatively very tall daughter.

kind of funny about Steve Jobs.. of all the people to 'catch cancer'. It's too bad. Many of us do.

Fishfish,

So nice...I really mean it from the bottom of my heart
Very nice found !


Kind regards,
Sanverp

Forgot to mention that the one from apple is also very good.
Thanks to both of you.


Kind regards,
Sanverp

Hello Apple and welcome to the forum.

The casualness of the first two lines took me back a bit but I like it. It reminds me of a
song with an upbeat, carrying along lyrics that would normally want to make you cry.

I love the colours in your painting. The tall thin girl matches the poem well.

I wish you the best possible health outcome, it can't be easy.

(M. fish - you have just proven that almost anything can be funny.)

Thanks for your clarification, apple. Well, that painting was very prophetic then, wasn't it. It's very intriguing with its focus on your bodies and the checkerboard floor... and the stairs behind you. Especially appealing with your long, lithe bodies and the colours.

As Cate has already said, Welcome to the Forum from me, too... and I, too, hope very much for good, healthy outcomes for you with your unwanted, unasked for challenge.


~ Lizzy

i certainly am not long and lithe.. muscular and kind of built like a fighting dog, but my husband and daughter are both long and tall.

Let's see.. i have had cancer for 4 years and hopefully will make it to 60.. who knows? I am 56. I don't particularly like to talk about it, person to person is the worst. I went to a parish function. I work as an organist in other churches so i haven't been around much where i used to play weekly (2 or 3 times). I swear, if one more person hugged me and asked me how I was I would have puked. I just left early and i was dressed pretty cute... a one beer date.

did someone make Apple take that delightful photo down of her son humping a statue. whoever it was is rotten to the core and should apologise

isn't that funny..this pic?

I laughed so hard when i first saw it on his facebook page.. .. a bunch of 8th graders horsing around. What's funny is the expression on the gorilla.. surely the sculptor would have known what would happen and apparently, it is a teenage boys' right of passage to have one's photo taken with the gorilla.

I'll put it back up. My kids switched browsers and it takes me a while to recover. He is the funniest kid ever.

Oh yes, the photo is excellent. I really think the gorilla deserved everything he got. As Leonard Cohen himself once wrote -"the". If he could have bothered to finish the sentence it is surely very likely he would have added "gorilla deserved everything he got". Although, we can never be certain.

LOL, Michael.

as Apple said, for teenage boys it was "right up the passage".