Sunday, September 25, 2022

When I Grow Old

I’m looking forward to growing old,

As strange as it may seem.

When faced with the alternative

It gives me quite a chill.

Gumming meals and spinning wheels,

Although vicariously,

Is oh so far superior to

Lying lifeless, cold and still.

 

Age is more a state of mind

Than clocked by calendar,

Creeping by at lightning speed

To wonder where it’s gone.

Melancholy musings muddle

Multi-facet memories

As plaintive pipers, sweetly strumming,

Play a favorite song.

Looking back with sweet regret,

Recapturing the gold.

Tilting windmills in my lusty dreams

When I grow old.

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