Ryu Winston - The Hendrick post (Ullman Youth)

Youth is not a time of life
It is a state of mind
It is a temper of will
A quality of the imagination
A vigor of the emotions
A predominance of courage
Over timidity
Of the appetite for adventure
Over love of ease
Nobody grows old
By merely living a number of years
People grow old
Only by deserting their ideals
Years will wrinkle the skin
But to give up enthusiasm
Will wrinkle the soul
Worry, doubt, self-distrust
Fear and despair
These are the long, long years
That bow the head and
Turn the growing spirit back to dust
Whether you are sixteen or seventy There is in every one's heart
The love of wonder
The sweet amazement at the stars
And starlike, things
And thoughts
Of the undaunted challenges
Of events of life
The unfailing childlike appetite
For what is to come next
And the joy and the game of life
You are as young
As your faith
And as old as your doubt

As young as your self-confidence And as old as your fear
As young as your hope
And as old as your despair
When the wires are all down
And all the innermost core
Of your heart
Is covered with the snows
Of pessimism and the ice of cynicism
Then you are old indeed
But so long
As your heart receives messages
Of beauty, cheer, courage, grandeur
And power from the earth
From the mankind
And from the Infinite
So long you are young indeed
And that's what I am
I'm forever young
The immortal son
I got a question
And In fact i got more than 1
What happens
When your family counselor
Is facing a divorce
When your pastor is a sinner after church
And sleeps with a bottle of vodka
When the judge judging others
Is a criminal whose good
In making his crimes
Appear no longer
When the president
No longer serves the nation
But bidding it to the highest buyer
So they can feed their own kind
So the kind that is your own and mine
Can carry on and starve
When your shrink
Is struggling to deal
With the loss of her own child
When the Dr operating you
Is dying from undiagnosed brain cancer
When time becomes money
And you have none but pressure
When the AIDS killing your child
Is the one you distributed with pleasure
When police officers
Murder and brutalise us
Who do we trust
When law applies only to the poor Does it mean the rich is right
When we vote for the regular
Will we ever know what's on the other side
When you make a milli
Will you help the ones that starve
When your time is up
Will you say you spent It right
Cause right when you think you got it good
The director yells CUT
And I can't tell you how
All I can say is play your part
So do what you wanna do
And I believe you're grown enough to know wrong from right
But know whatever you do in the dark
Will eventually crawl into the light
And remember the only darkness in the world is in mankind
Not just politicians and murderous and rapist
And mothers and fathers who purposefully abandon their own child

No it's in all mankind

Written by:
Xolani Maminze

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