may i be struck down

i see how people get when the get older. things become cheap and trivial.

may i be struck down if i become cheap and trivial.

blessed be my naive brain, but i don't see me becoming old in the way most people get old. i still want to sing my partner to sleep. i still want to go and pick apples in the fall. i want to read all the books i v never read. i want to skate till i m gray in mane. i ll swim in every ocean. i ll continue to listen to the dorky music i v always listened to. i ll make breakfast in bed till i m blue in the face.

may i be struck down if i live in any regrets.

may i never say:

"we did not do the things we wanted to do; we never did such things"