"Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light." from poem "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" - By Dylan Thomas
Grace can't grind away the wrinkled gnarls time obeyed, Nor hide the snarls, ploughed as furrows in the brow. It carves the knurls for grip that age has disobeyed, To a shape what decrepit, flailing lovers can still avow. Grace respects the knurled design that time has hewn, That's not a flaw, nor fault, but a form that time engraves. With old branches twisted, scarred, gone too far to prune, Grace hugs the bumps and twists that life well-spent saves. It's the gnarls of age that knurls the grip to rage Against the blight of the coming of the night, Despite the cranky snarls that ring on anvil swage, As loved ones bare the brunt of frail days plight. So let the gnarls knurl the grooves to grip tight. To fight and rage against the fading of the light.
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