SOLILOQUY AT SEVENTY
Chester Swor
Worked with College and University Students


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How in the world can I seventy be,
When down in my heart I'm just twenty-one?
It's time for the game to be fading, you see,
But, really, seems to me it's only begun.

BUT........

I look in the mirror and what do I see?
Is that Father Time, or do I see me?
The hair, once so black, is now very white;
The once dancing eyes are not now so bright.
The lines in my forehead grow deeper each year;
Am stooping a bit at times now I fear.
Once I could spring up and speed here and there:
More slowly these days I rise from my chair.
The stairs seem much steeper, the blocks longer still:
What once was an incline is now a high hill.

SO...........

I'm obliged to admit what those factors impart
Belies the young feeling I have in my heart.
But, what if at seventy I looked twenty-one;
Debonair, flashy and ever so young?
People would be whisperin', "He's sure been redone
By some plastic surgeon, I wonder which one."

So here's what my thought at this age haps to be:
I'll just look my age and live fancy free,
Remembering my chassis is getting antique,
And once in a while will just have to squeak.
I'll laugh at the jokes 'bout the aged they tell,
But, laughing, I'll cherish this thought very well:
IT'S GREAT TO LOOK SEVENTY IN PHYSICAL WAYS,
IF YOUR HEART'S TWENTY-ONE ON DOWN THROUGH THE DAYS!

Chester E. Swor


I met Chester Swor at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. He spoke in Chapel and I went to a gathering afterwards. That day he was very concerned with what we, as students, were doing to the English language.

Chester Swor is gone now. However, many, many students remember him.

Linda, the secretary of the Blanco Baptist Association in Beeville, Texas, gave this poem of his to me in September 1997. She knew that I spoke fondly of him and his amazing influence.

Ray
November 25, 1997


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