Aging Ii

Age is a verb for opening the door Into a judgement of the satisfaction You’ve found in life, by its opportunities Beckoning betterment and relationship I agree that perhaps we could’ve loved more But you find community in your elderly years With others who also realise they’re temporary Because we’re all human and have friendships You get to say then your citizenship’s place Because then you know more cities, space Life’s view becomes clearer, you don’t cage And your poetry is your gem in its meaning However, we identify with far more groups Than, than just with our older compatriots Because we come from occupations, societies Have hobbies, interests and sports events And to say that we’re all children of god Is insane, sacrilege and indeed very unfound People exist within the worldwide population We come from matter, plants and animals There’s no land of Heaven, that I know Universal common agreement won’t occur Sometime in the distant future - after death We need to decide now on ecology, wealth I believe myself that you get more control Over your life with age, you get far more rights Anything that’s unusual like studying, swimming Is embraced as your direct entitlement, pleasure And if you can’t surface from or cope with religion Because your parents faith and prayers impede Your strivings and attempts to call, express Your interested, kindly, and quite modern estate Then you can just let yourself chill As did when you were when a child, you’re holding on And you can show your inner scars and ablations To your psychiatrist who’ll stand up for you Reading, with age, becomes a living organism Relates to you when you’re rough and spare Validates those views which you formed yourself Through your own experiences and observations Authors explain things to you to describe facts Extrapolate their feelings until you know And so books give you context, further ideas Because there’s others who agree with you DVDs with age come off the shelves repeatedly And sci-fi enlivens your dormant eccentricity, the Your very breath is respired and heart is given To your snuffed and stuffed imagination Confidence grows at speed from within As sci-fi haibuns transcend and come to you Alien possibilities multiply and lovingly soothe Your memory of steep childhood rejection Also, when you couldn’t love your parents before With age you can care for and direct them Because it’s now more normal to do so, it is said, And also why not? You can, so you may as well!