Expectations and Just the Way it is

Expectations and Just the Way it is

my mom got old

my dad got old

I had to let them go

my silver hair reminds

that I got old

permanence is no promise

God doesn't expect what he made

in his own image

to last forever

he allowed us to be born, getting old

I read a lot of Sylvia Plath

she never got old

didn't give herself a chance to

was she made in God's image

if he were one of us

would he get old?

is his image aging?

I must let me go

God expects that

others will take my place

my mom's place

my dad's place

and they, too, will get old.

or more Sylvias

or Elvises

or Freddie Prinze Jrs

who will never get old.

erin-cilberto

7/3/25

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[Lorry]

We are all only permanent until we no longer are Jacob. Until the last that remembered is gone and the lineage is broken.
If God has infinite wisdom as they say, perhaps he saw the fault in giving us eternal life. I mean, surely by now with how many tens of thousands of generations of people there has been, we'd be tripping over each other and would have to build thousand storey skyscrapers just to live, and even then we'd probably only be allowed out in some kind of dystopian/ hunger games type lottery, in case we trample each other to death.
Oh, and nice subliminal messaging that has left me humming American pie at the end! 😃

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I agree with all you said and now I think I will drive my Chevy to the Levy and hope it's not dry.read moreI agree with all you said and now I think I will drive my Chevy to the Levy and hope it's not dry.
j.