Creaking

 

I’m sitting, learning forward

On a Sunday afternoon

As if I were counting vertebrae

I can’t hear them, not yet

Maybe someday

Ageing with an e or without

Isn’t so bad

Especially when most of what’s wrong

Has been extant for years

I wonder if someone else could relate

With ailments long-standing

Conditions that haven’t healed right

Events from long ago

That still have their way

For good or ill

Ill when it’s nightmarish

In the waking now

 

Creaking like an old door

That still moves

Thank goodness

But like a challenge that

Deserves a well-oiled response

 

C L Couch

 

 

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