Pondering Growing Old

by HarryT

These days, I sometimes sit and ponder how many
days do I still have before…? Don’t want to brag,
but I’m approaching eighty years old. I try to stay
busy, don’t want to sit and vegetate.

I’m a bit creakier when climbing out of my bed,
legs at times feel like they’ve turned into cement.
Morning exercises to keep sciatica under control,
and a couple of more to work on those love handles.

I still have wants, like improving my writing and bowling too.
My goal is to average 170, but I have some way to go.
I have a novel though finished; it is not yet published,
more effort is needed to see it in print.

I know I am lucky; my wife is still with me;
many friends, not by choice, are single again.
Together, we two keep loving and plugging, to
where we’re not certain, but we keep going.

We still own our house, always needs something done,
lawn needs cutting, bushes need to be trim, the
same with our bodies, eyes, ears, hips and lungs,
not nearly as efficient as in the way back when.

Doctor appointments litter our calendar, we mix in
movies and plays for some fun. Four-thirty
dinners with friends are now the rule, snoozing on
the couch, TV on, before we shuffle off to bed.

Always the question, should we downsize,
or stay, or purchase a condo in one of those
Senior living places? At least, if one of us dies,
the other would not be too alone.

But, would that be surrender? Would that be giving up?
I really don’t wanna be around old people all of the time.
A day at the pool, in one those places, is very depressing,
who needs a reminder of how much we've changed?

For now, I think I’ll just keep pondering and enjoying
my patio,sitting in the sun, under clear blue sky,
watching rabbits, squirrels, and flitting birds
living out their lives in the confines of my backyard.

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I think what to do as I grow old.

Pondering Growing Old

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