A candle burns brightest just before the night grows dark. The later years of life aren't meant to be an epilogue. They're where wisdom becomes someone else's future.
There's a fear that comes quietly as the years get closer, when the steps get a little heavy and the hands start to shake. Once I used to carry others, now they carry me. Once I used to lead, now people explain things to me.
But this isn't the end of the road, and it isn't the end of the song, because I still have something to give, I still have something to light up.
Don't cast me aside in old age, don't abandon me when my strength fails. Don't cast me aside in old age, don't abandon me when my strength fails.
I have scars on my heart that became my Torah. I have battles in my soul that no one ever saw. I have years of work in prayer and in soul, drawing close to You even as my body sinks into stillness.
And if I don't run like I used to, and if my voice isn't loud anymore, every word I still give can still open everything.
Don't cast me aside in old age, don't abandon me when my strength fails. Don't cast me aside in old age, don't abandon me when my strength fails.
And even to old age and grey hair, God, don't abandon me, until I tell of Your strength to the next generation, Your might to all who come. There's still something to hand down, something to leave behind, there's a fire of years that can still give light.
They will still flourish in old age, full of sap and green, to declare that God is upright, my Rock, in whom there is no wrong. If I don't have the strength to build, I have the wisdom to guide. If I don't have the strength to run, I have light to keep going.
And what I learned in blood and tears will pass to the next generation and bloom a hundredfold. And everything I built with strength and prayer will keep walking even when I no longer can.
Don't cast me aside in old age, don't abandon me when my strength fails. Don't cast me aside in old age, don't abandon me when my strength fails.
Even when I have no strength left, let me still give. Even when I have no strength left, don't abandon me now.
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