Friday, January 12, 2024

GETTING THERE

 

 


At Almost Eighty

Recuperation, Declination, Deliberation and Respiration


Can i dare to place a limit

Is it an age?

or a state of mind?

Mine or just that of others?


Who decides, enough is enough?

spouse, children?

when intellect becomes insult

when perception is a nightmare

climate becomes only temperature

of feelings

and attitude

using heat and cold

mockery and demands

life remains short

nay, shorter

than a few days to visit a Spring house and 

cats and flowers 

and grass 

that smell like me after rain and mowing

but for so little

so memorable

a fortune 

to hope 

found too much for this age

that only real family deserves

and the age may not hope or enjoy

with so much joy in its past

none of which  carry forward 

below the TOTAL line

which has only numbers

undecipherable

even if its ink  

and meaning 

have not disappered


Ahmet C.Celebiler 

May 16, 2023

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