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When an old man died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home ...

in North Platte , Nebraska, it was believed that he had nothing left of any value.

Later, when the nurses were going through his meager possessions, they found this poem. Its quality and content so impressed the staff that copies were made and distributed to every nurse in the hospital.

One nurse took her copy to Missouri . The old man's sole bequest to posterity has since appeared in the Christmas edition of the News Magazine of the St. Louis Association for Mental Health.  A slide presentation has also been made based on his simple, but eloquent, poem.

And this little old man, with nothing left to give to the world, is now the author of this 'anonymous' poem winging across the Internet.

Crabby Old Man

What do you see nurses?.........What do you see?  

What are you thinking...........when you're looking at me?

A crabby old man..........not very wise,

Uncertain of habit..........with faraway eyes?

Who dribbles his food..........and makes no reply.

When you say in a loud voice..........'I do wish you'd try!'  

Who seems not to notice.........the things that you do

And forever is losing..........A sock or shoe?

Who, resisting or not..........lets you do as you will,

With bathing and feeding...........The long day to fill?  

Is that what you're thinking?..........Is that what you see?

Then open your eyes, nurse..........you're not looking at me.

I'll tell you who I am..........as I sit here so still,

As I do at your bidding..........as I eat at your will.  

I'm a small child of Ten ... with a father and mother,

Brothers and sisters...........who love one another

A young boy of Sixteen..........with wings on his feet

Dreaming that soon now..........a lover he'll meet.

A groom soon at Twenty.........my heart gives a leap  

Remembering, the vows.........that I promised to keep. 

At Twenty-Five, now..........I have young of my own  

Who need me to guide..........And a secure happy home.  

A man of Thirty..........My young now grown fast,

Bound to each other...........With ties that should last. 

At Forty, my young sons.........have grown and are gone,

But my woman's beside me...........to see I don't mourn.  

At Fifty, once more.........Babies play ' round my knee,

Again, we know children...........My loved one and me. 

Dark days are upon me..........My wife is now dead.

I look at the future..........I shudder with dread. 

For my young are all rearing..........young of their own  

And I think of the years..........and the love that I've known. 

I'm now an old man...........and nature is cruel  

Tis jest to make old age...........look like a fool.  

The body, it crumbles..........grace and vigor, depart  

There is now a stone..........where I once had a heart 

But inside this old carcass...........a young guy still dwells,

And now and again..........my battered heart swells  

I remember the joys..........I remember the pain.

And I'm loving and living...........life over again 

I think of the years . all too few..........gone too fast.

And accept the stark fact..........that nothing can last  

So open your eyes, people..........open and see

Not a crabby old man .  Look closer..........see.........ME!! 

Remember this poem when you next meet an older person whom

you might brush aside without looking at the young soul within ...

we will all, one day, be there, too!  

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  Following the placement of a wreath and bouquets of red, white and blue flowers, De Soto VFW Post 6654

  Commander Drew Culbertson places an American Flag in ... 

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  Matt Buehler plays Taps at the end of the De Soto VFW Post 6654's Memorial Day

  ... The De Soto VFW Post 6654 Honor Guard fires a 21-gun salute for fallen ...

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  Dec 17, 2008 ... To register and make an appointment online visit www.esavealife.org

  and use the sponsor code: VFW POST 6654 or call Dan Vest at (785) ...

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  Saturday, January 24, 2009. De Soto Chamber of Commerce Annual Membership Meeting

  and Silent Auction. Location: De Soto VFW Post #6654 ...

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Kaw River "Four Houses" "Cedar Creek"

In 1813 the American Fur Company was formed. and the Choteaus formerly connected with the Missouri Company, and also Pierre, Jr., and his brother Francis became members. This company occupied the posts of the Missouri Trading Company, of which it was an outgrowth, and made great efforts to monopolize the trade in the Southwest by rooting out independent traders. Francis Choteau was sent to Kansas, and was employed for several years in this work.

The post known as the "Four Houses," so called from its being built on the four sides of an open square, was established on the north bank of the Kaw, twenty miles above its mouth, and in 1821 a general agency for furnishing supplies was established at the mouth of the river; from which men were sent to the Neosho and Osage. In 1825 Francis was joined by Cyprian, his brother, and a house was built about opposite the present site of Muncie, on the south side of the Kaw, and in 1830 another trading post was established by Frederick on Mission, then American Chief's creek, in what is now Shawnee county.

In 1819-1820, the Missouri River froze over before Christmas and the ice did not begin to break up until near the end of March. On March 1, the snow stood two feet deep in the bottomland near the mouth of the Kansas River (also called the Kaw). Snowmelt and heavy spring rains led to flooding in 1826. The rising Missouri washed away Randolph Chouteau’s fur trading post near the Kaw-Missouri junction, and he soon moved his family upriver to the “Four Houses” trading post on Cedar Creek, east of present-day De Soto.

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