One after another, after another!
Enough, already!
Danger ahead! Danger behind!
And I thought myself done by now.
Weren’t we supposed to have some ease
into old age?
Apparently still learning.
Apparently still growing.
And I thought I was all grown up.
Maybe enlightened by now.
What a joke!
Still, I’m lucky.
No health problems,
a happy home, humor
holding things together
instead of whining and worry.
I knew a couple like that,
whining into death.
He was dissatisfied with his lot.
He blamed her, but you know
how that goes.
Always the other person.
If they’d both taken responsibility
years ago,
how different those final years
might have been.