Not Knowing Nor Wanting To Know Newish

Stretching tip and Ativan and Norco Laundry in the dryer Crows and squirrels looking in the windows And a good book to disappear into As always pain, walker, cane and chair Unexpected decline from years ago Worked so hard to rid others of despair Here I am avoiding orange like news Wondering why and what these people choose To spit and scream knock windows down While it seems we and the earth are starting to drown Will the earth and animals survive Without mankind will the earth thrive Questions I ponder— as I am getting old Is the world starting to end Will humanity live or are we dying This many of us are pondering Who will live who can thrive I have no children and the sky is dark A mistake perhaps I know as I sit here in the park Though at this age I may never know Yet I did not want to put them in this crazy circus show Envy and greed may put this earth to an end Still we view the world as we wish to see it thriving Living glowing and striving How long this will continue to exist we do not know. As we sit among the woods and surf Not knowing nor wanting to know We walk and watch for now this ongoing show. Except for scientists who give warnings The ending the rest of us have chosen not to know