Growing older
forces you to accept
change,
circumstances
beyond your control.
Nursing homes,
microwave meals,
arthritic fingers,
feet soaked in salts,
walkers
with tennis balls.
Growing older enables you
to adapt, recognize
the lasting things,
remember
the missing things.
Doctor visits,
rising co-pays,
bunions on both
feet, murmurs
of the heart,
on the john
way too long.
Growing older
humbles you,
prepares you
for your fate, head
and hands that shake.
Choose a date,
time and place,
pay the burial fee,
make peace with the
creator,
take a number
and wait.
Crow On The Wire 
Apparently sad but deeply full of awareness and wisdom
Just one of the many realities. Fighting it doesn’t work very well. Trying to stay young is futile. 🙏🏻
Inevitable can’t be fought but certainly it can be acknowledged accepted and lived through😎