By hollymccormick
Date: 2002 Feb 06
Comment on this Work
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I Do Not Want To Be....

I do not want to be
Thirty five and just
Getting married.
I do not want to be
Forty and just beginning
A new family.
I do not want to be
Fifty-eight when my child
Moves out of my house.
I do not want to be
Sixty-three before
I can see the face
Of my grandchildren.
I do not want to be
Seventy before I can
Take them to the movies.
I do not want to be
Dead when their lives are
Just beginning.
I do not want to be
Thirty five and just
Getting married.