None of us
had plans
for getting old.
Never gave a thought
to how we’d grow.
Learning things
that no one we know
knows.
No one told us
the world could be
so cold.
Take it day by day
and hour by hour.
Choices that we made
become our power,
or the curse
that makes us
cringe and cower,
as the things
we used to love
turn our guts sour.
Here we are now,
breaking new ground.
We used to think
that we were better
lost than found.
But now,
we just want to lay
our heads down
and not have
another thing
to worry about.
DJR – 2022
