Who died yesterday at the age of seventeen
Of complications from Progeria
“Be O.K. with what you can’t do, because there is so much you can do.”
I watch on YouTube the young man who looks something like an old man
He does not want to be pitied
He explains his way in Happiness
Humbled I think that there are so many things
I an old man still have
That he will never have
Sorrow comes
I am ashamed of myself
He lived such a short life
And with so many difficulties
I will try in the future to focus less
On all I have not done and probably can never do
Life and disease are merciless
The young man is gone
I am an old man still alive
I still can write a poem for myself
And for the memory of another
Of the many teachers
I have had in the wisdom of life
I am not sure I have been able to learn from.
Shalom Freedman
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-lesson-from-sam-berns-of-blessed-memory/
