Started writing poems a little over a year ago after an unexpected cancer diagnosis and a brief hospital stay with many tests and examinations.<\/p>\n
Now I\u2019m 80 years of age and feel healthy as a racing horse with the cancer gone and still working out and riding my exercise bike for 2 hours daily.<\/p>\n
I see these poems as being like swan songs that I write till the end of my life, going out with words that are like musical lyrics to me, a final symphony of swan songs.<\/p>\n
The problem is a doctor at the hospital said I could live another 30 years, and that\u2019s a long time for an aging mind to keep writing poems.<\/p>\n
And, quite frankly, I don\u2019t want to live 30 more years with the risks of debilitating diseases and mental impairments, like dementia.<\/p>\n
Not to mention the diminished quality of life as one reaches the 90s and beyond.<\/p>\n
But in the meantime, I\u2019ll just keep composing these poems for as long as I can.<\/p>\n
Bob Boyd <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Started writing poems a little over a year ago after an unexpected cancer diagnosis and a brief hospital stay with many tests and examinations. Now I\u2019m 80 years of age and feel healthy as a racing horse with the cancer gone and still working out and riding my exercise bike for 2 hours daily. I… Continue reading