Hanging Up The Cleats

After years competing in a race to chase,
A doing even better...
At anytime or place.
On a road one takes,
To pave a path one originates.
With a making mistakes.
Only the one knows made to eliminate.
There comes that time,
When a success to achieve it...
Nolonger is in need to prove to anyone.
That what has been accomplished to do,
Knowing it done.
For many years endeavored,
In a nonstopping run.
One's hanging up the cleats,
Still will leave many behind.
Discovering to find,
Their minds awakening to a time...
Already adventured to explore.
Yet attempting to catch up,
To what they had ignored.
Leaving them excited.
Although...
That discovery,
To welcome found to find...
Has left those to have adventured.
And living to explore?
Doing the very best they can to pretend,
Not to be bored by listening...
To those beginning to notice,
The Sun rises in the morning
And the Sun sets before night falls.
With this actually done,
As the Earth rotates and orbits...
Around a fixed Sun that does not move.

'Really?
Then...
If the trees create the air we breathe,
Why do people catch diseases,
And trees don't?
Wouldn't they need to be vaccinated too?'

'You see those cleats hanging up,
On that wall over there?'

'Yes.
You use to run a lot?'

'Sure did.
There was a time I was afraid,
Of being caught.
So I just kept running and running.
As fast as I could.
To distance myself from ignorance.'

'I wish I knew how to recognize it.'

'I have found it interesting to discover,
At my age...
There is no getting away from it.
And once one learns,
Where it comes from to be done...
It is amazing the number of people,
Who can not see...
The forest for the trees or the meaning,
Of dawn to make clear what reality is.'

'And...
What is the meaning of dawn?'

'There are a few definitions for it.
I'll use one I especially like.
It done dawned on me,
I should have said nothing about running.'

'It should have dawned.
Not done dawned.'

'And you should have been gone,
Long to have dawned to go.'

'Huh?
What are you saying?'

'It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas.
What do you think I'm saying?