[Stylist] New poem I wrote for my retirement

[ckuell at comcast.net]

Hey Shawn,

 

Sorry for not commenting on this poem sooner. Firstly, congratulations on your retirement. That’s quite the milestone, and a big change in your life, so I hope you embrace it.

 

I enjoyed your poem, although I don’t think the title ‘Career Suicide’ really fits. Perhaps ‘Career Freedom’ or ‘A New Path’?

 

You have a few typos, but otherwise it reads well to me. Nice job.

 

Chris

 

 

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Subject: [Stylist] New poem I wrote for my retirement

 

I hope you like it.

 

 

Career Suicide
by Shawn Jacobson

 

Until the gold fades
I will treasure future years
unchained from this life.

 

The leader shows a slide upon the screen
a desert road, mountains in the distance.
“The road forward” reads the caption,
but it is not my road; I will part ways.
The road of office life, shall not be mine
I will take my leave, a different path.
My career will pass from my hands as I exit.

 

The Emails offer training, ways to grow
in agency programs, leadership skills,
computer abilities useful for my work.
Yet I am disengaged, it matters not.
These things no longer ignite my fire
in terminal time they have no meaning,
no relevance to my now.  I’m moving on.

 

By my will I relinquish this cubical place,
and abdicate this life with my own hand.
I will take this life to live in other ways.
My memory will fade as I move onward.
My works will fall that others might build anew.
I terminate this time office tomorrows.
All things must end; I end thiw work life here.

 

Soon shall come the day of this surrender
the abdication of my work in the world.
I shall return my badge, and my computer
things I used though they were never mine.
And then I will depart for new tomorrows
HUDGone shall cleanse my ghosts from here.
I’ll travel on to death and liberation.

 

I drop this burden
looking to the horizon;
Freedom, death, freedom

 

Shawn Jacobson
sdj60259 at aol.com <mailto:sdj60259 at aol.com> 

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