You are now too old
to indulge in arrogance
and yet you are too young
to have anything to be arrogant about
you are in mortal peril
at the midpoint of a life
which is not a life
which has no past and no future
for you are not present in it
yet grace abounds
and with it, poetry
Michael Shepherd
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/lines-to-a-poet-of-middling-age/
