Jax Blog #4 – Retire, Retired, Retiring

Hello Folks

This is about the whole idea of being retired. I wrote it back in 2006. I didn't retire until the end of 2015. So after I wrote this, I had a lot of time to consider the prospect. As it is now well into 2021 in the age of Covid-19, It's not exactly working out the way I'd hoped. But, then, we're all in that boat.

Retire, Retired, Retiring

It has such a lovely ring
Oh, what a marvelous thing
To live solely at one's ease
A quiet veranda built to please

To sip a julep, or, some icy freeze
Watching birds wing through the trees
Feeling just the hint of a breeze
The mere slight rustle of the leaves

And not to work on one's knees
Feel the world's fast pace cease
Breathing soft as dreams release
A new life composed of these

Retire, Retired, Retiring

A lovely lady or two, how swell
A luncheon butler ringing his bell
To have any choice, like a magic spell
All for me.... no bloody hell!

Jack T. Leyton
2006


Oh well, I'm still looking for that butler with the bell. As for the lady's.... 
Nothing's as it's dreamed even without the age of Covid. But I still do have a few very good friends that I'm most thankful for.
Till next time.

Jack, out.
✌️🙂🖖