I am lucky enough
  to be able to
    sit here today
   and write down
     that I've watched
    more than fifty years go by
        in what has mostly
          been a blur  
and in that time
I have laughed
   and I have danced
    and I have loved
   and been loved
    and I have cried...
I have really, really cried...
and painfully and truthfully
I must admit that
   I honestly don't know
    how I survived
  the nights that I cried
   until there was
    nothing left of me
that there was only
  the heavy
    and the hollow
     in my chest
  that continued to cry...
there were tears
  and snot
   and heaving
but I was gone...
no longer really there
but somehow
I made it through
I came back somehow
I woke up the next day...
and today I am grateful
  beyond words
   to still be here today
I know with fifty
plus years gone
  there will soon
    be a tomorrow
     that I will not see
and that it will
  come in a flash
but that does not trouble me
  as I have said before
Death will make lier's
  of us all in the end
we all must one day walk
  into the shadows
   of the unknown
but I know in the time
  I've seen pass
my heart has been
  blessed and filled
   with the light of love
and I know in whatever time
  I have left
   that light
    will not dim
    but grow brighter
and when the shadows come
  how lucky I will be
   to have such
    a beautiful life
  to say goodbye to...