Dont Tell Me/How Old I Am

DON'T TELL ME /HOW OLD I AM Don't tell me How old I am And what I haven't done in my life And where I am not going after I die Don't tell me how bad and sad and empty it all is And how Nothing is Everything after all And that even the bones of Shakespeare will be unremembered dust one day Don't tell me about Nada and more Nada And the black sky and the dark matter and the dying universe An all that empty cold entropy and those little particles of dispersed dust at the end of it all Don't tell me how fake multiverses and phony multi-dimensional other worlds will never really be Don't tell me about how it all will be bad in the endless nowhere nothing nobody end of it all- I am a small person nearly at the end of my days And it is all beyond me What I know And what I will be I pray to G-d for- Don't tell me please how old I am and how soon I will die I know I am not on the way up to the stars at the moment Let me please hear the quiet for a second There is Beauty in the world and Goodness in some people And much to live for Especially the love of our own special few Don't tell me all these bad things please I am trying to do the best I can to the end Let me do it quietly with as much kindness and care as I can I know I am going soon Let them say I lived my life in such a way As to try with all my soul To make others happy and blessed.