Creativity does not fade with age
The narratives we foist
are a weak soup
of expertise
that experts only know
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The wisdom of the world
is hid away
among the lost
ignored
and stultified
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Exemplary is this falsehood that says
age makes what’s creative go away
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The fog of childhood
does not go away
The questions in a child’s mind do not rest
When age perceives one’s thoughts
grown through the years
that child’s voice is the one
one hears
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In short what is creative knows no age
Marianne Moore and countless others
testify
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When death’s door is less far away
Thoughts multiply
Creation has its day
We learn more as we muse beyond all schools
We have experience that tells new truth
We understand complexity anew
We are set free from what we had to do
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We do not live inside a confined box
constrained by arbitrary disciplines
No answers live in such confines
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Life has no stages but the ones we make
So narrate on — no need to stay awake
