Category: Poems

In 1975 I wrote this poem for a Bicentennial speech I was preparing. It was published in the United State Congressional Record and in Success Unlimited Magazine.

“I did not come to my fundamental understanding of the universe through my rational mind. I often think in music.” Albert Einstein

Many say Lincoln was a poet. He wrote “Four score and seventy years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in Liberty and dedicated to the principle that all men were created equal.”

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

When I retired from the Grand Trunk Western Railroad one of my fellow workers asked me who would be filling my vacancy. I told him I didn’t leave any. I figured I had done my job. Here’s a poem that’s a favorite of mine.