I’m still here!

Often when life is a joy or a pain, I am compelled to write about it in simple verse.
This time there's little joy, and for weeks it looked like it couldn't get any worse.

That of course is the present, but the past was the world's most interesting life.
I created words and pictures, a gift to history. The gift to me? The greatest son and wife.

The other gift, like a Timex, a brain that took a licking and kept on talking away.
But 4 weeks ago, four doctors, told me my once happy heart was not here to stay.

At 92 my heart was falling apart. Impossible to fix because it was ticking too slow.
With no family to start my life, the Gods gave me willpower, saying I'm not going to go.

So, I thanked the caring doctors and nurses, saying goodbye to all at the hospital except one.
A Korean lady cardiologist who knows what she's doing…while I am out sitting in the sun.

It is one of the greatest pleasures and one of the greatest healers one could feel.
I never had a mother, until Mother Nature put her warm arms around me in a love that's real.

With the help of my cardiologist medicines, she thinks I will be around for quite a long while.
That'd be nice, being with son and wife with work to do...facing a certain slow end with a smile!!!

— John Barbour