GROWING OLD
Sometimes age may take you unaware
And getting old seems much too abstract,
Its effects so subtle that you hardly care,
And you think your functions are all intact.
Bot sometimes age comes like a hurricane
And blows part of your corporal houseaway,
With devastating loss and grades of pain.
Revealing a solid measure of decay.
Eyes allways change,and some go blind,
And hearing loss may be complete.
And ones' fortunes are most unkind
When enuresis brings about defeat.
Some people suffer losses losses silently,
But with their active life gone to pot,
How much hidden grief there must be
To watch onself be overcome with rot.
Then there's the one who's lost some mind
Who is treated most cavaierly,
But the good part of the brain the is left behind
Is aware of the loss very clearly.
And another who's going senile,
Who knows the coming loss ahead
And who knows that nearly all is futile.
And confesses that he'd best be dead.
Old muscles and bone may cause some pain
And varied losses in mobility.
Our younger lives we cant regain--
Just a sense of waning utlity.
The world now moves too fast apace
The aged ones no longer are the wise.
They be scorned, abused or robbed of grace
Until the time of their demise.
Stewart C. Harvey
Salt Lake City, UT