Myself, With Me and Life

February 27, 2021

You laugh with me, you weep with me, and infrequently insane moments are shared with you. But knowing what I know, the places that I have seen, the errors of my youth, the heartaches, heart breaks and being liberated as one who “has”; what good is this to youthful souls who think of you as ancient, deep-rooted, timeworn and possibly pathetic. Who are you? Can you live my life? What will you do for me? If only, if only the young at heart do not look past me, oh woe is them who will not take this life and learn to do as I have done without the gaffes. Woe is them. So here I am, I live deep within myself, with all the knowledge and all the pain, passed on to no one. My life is for me and me alone.

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Terrance Longtin

I'm 62 years old, I am married, I am an artist, I do abstract paintings and sell them locally and on Etsy in Terrance Gallery. I have had 23 major surgeries on my legs, recently Nov 9, Jan 11 and the next one in April. So I have a full leg cast from Nov 9 thru June 28 so I wrote a children's book which has been published and released to the public March 13, 2021. Also I kind of got interested in writing free verse poetry and I have written five so far. I love my cats and my 14 yr old grandson. I'm married to the absolute best wife ever! One of my tattoos is on my forearm, it's from a free verse poem by Walt Whitman called "Song of the Open Road" it's 15 pages long but well worth reading. My tattoo says "all seems beautiful to me" and there's a Chinese symbol for beauty at the end. Walt Whitman is known as the father of free verse poetry. I actually wrote a free verse poem about myself, which I really like.

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