1980: Potentials
Where would I like to be the most?
I'd like to live from Coast to Coast.
Not in between, or everywhere
But just selective here and there.
I'd like to live on Mt. Rainier
With glacier lilies, bears and deer.
Or maybe make it Monterey
Where otters swim there in the bay.
Piedra Blanca sounds real nice;
It never will see snow and ice.
But, then again, what's wrong with snow?
New Hampshire may be where I'll go
To see the foliage in the fall
And climb upon the mountain wall
Of granite gray and lichens bright
Where fireflies come out at night.
Oh, so many possibilities.
2010: Reality
But, in the end, Life throws the curve
No matter want, or need, or nerve.
We mostly settle where we landed
When circumstances left us stranded.
We maybe dream of all we've missed.
We maybe make a "bucket list"
Defying Time - or so we think
Until we see we're on the brink.
We're suddenly about to leave
And realize we've been naive.
We never had that much to say
As life goes right on, anyway.
Sanford "Sandy" Wilbur - April 2016
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