Priorities
Priorities change each decade
For better or for worse
Early ones get overlaid
And in new ones we immerse
In childhood, girls and boys
Have priorities, manifest
Nothing ranks their cherished toys
Those toys have passed their test
Then the fabulous teens appear
New priorities by the dozens
Understood only by their peers
In privy teenage discussions
Into their twenties they go roaring
Grown-up women and men
With visions of a new life soaring
Old teenage thoughts condemned
Marriage soon enters the scene
Careers become their priority
Ages are somewhere between
Childhood and elder seniority
Husbands and wives with children galore
Priorities altered by kids
They work and plan to rightly assure
Their kids will do more than they did
Then comes the day, when as grannys and gramps
Priorities changed and diminished
They look back in time when they were the champs
To those days long gone and long finished
Priorities for seniors are needed for sure
No longer mired by employment
Grandma and Grampsy should together conjure
New ways for well earned enjoyment
by Stan Cooper...7/2000 graphic by Don Hunt
Poetry by Stan Cooper
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Written on 2007-03-03 at 05:00
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