Crabby Old Man

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.
 

Remember this poem, when you next meet an older person who you might brush aside, without looking at the young soul within . . .