Sunday, October 11, 2020

HOW MANY MORE SUMMERS?

 Another summer has past,

evaporated like warm breath

on cold glass

 

And I ask myself:

How many more summers await me?

Because the painful truth

is that I am drawing down

to that final one

 

We are finite players

in an infinite universe

 

For children,

there is no end.

Just a series of beginnings

finality merely an obscure blemish

in the distance, insignificant

to youthful eyes

 

But to those of us

who are labelled “seniors,”

the supply of tomorrows

is rapidly dwindling, like

the daylight in early autumn

 

 

So you take them one at a time,

reveling in each sun-splashed day,

hoping another summer looms ahead,

and maybe,

just maybe

you can find away

to keep that dwindling light

from going dark

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