I don't think it has to do with age (although it might properly be attributed to a young man - see Cali's comment.)
This poem sings to me whenever I think about my own father (81 and still raging) . . . I posted it after talking with him and realising that we are young and stupid still and always ;)
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
I'm not young - 54 - I want my old Dad to rage still and answer when I say "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" and he says back to me Julius Caesar.
He's so very special to me and hampered by physical rather than mental decline - We do not see eye to eye very often but we love literature and cryptic crosswords.
My old Dad is not going gently into that good night but he is going to go there with a bright celebration of his life - I might yet rage against the dying of the light.
I DO hope to go gentle into that good night, knowing that I experienced and accomplished what I wanted to do in life, that I appreciated and treasured all of the myriad moments in my life, and that I helped make the world better for others as I traveled through.
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I don't think it has to do with age (although it might properly be attributed to a young man - see Cali's comment.)
This poem sings to me whenever I think about my own father (81 and still raging) . . . I posted it after talking with him and realising that we are young and stupid still and always ;)
And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
I'm not young - 54 - I want my old Dad to rage still and answer when I say "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war" and he says back to me Julius Caesar.
He's so very special to me and hampered by physical rather than mental decline - We do not see eye to eye very often but we love literature and cryptic crosswords.
My old Dad is not going gently into that good night but he is going to go there with a bright celebration of his life - I might yet rage against the dying of the light.
I hope he outlives me - he rocks!
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*hugs you close*
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I hope that for you - some of us might need to rage a little bit but please do not think less of us for it.
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Thanks Cali
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