Here I Still Am

Surprised to see me, huh?

Here I Still Am

 

By Elton Camp

 

Dispelling ignorance & dispensing knowledge

I’ve taught thousands of students at the college

 

When the older ones of them I happen to meet

They act surprised that I’m still around to greet

 

If their facial expression I have correctly read

What they mean is, “I thought you were dead.”

 

But though there has passed many a decade

So far, the Grim Reaper I’ve managed to evade

 

True, I can’t take stairs two at a time anymore

And I dare not hike in the woods as I did before

 

But my thinking is right and my memory clear

I sure hope that Alzheimer’s I don’t need to fear

 

I am still capable of decisions and driving my car

As when young, I haven’t wrecked, at least so far

 

With my clouded lenses surgically taken out,

I can again enjoy reading and looking about

 

As long as my obituary you haven’t read

You may safely assume that I’m not dead