Do you feel like this now that your old?
Your fingers from arthritis do not unfold
Your body temperature is always very cold
The clothes in your closet not hung but rolled
Food in your refrigerator is covered with mold
You’ve been through hard times so anything of value you’ve sold
Loss of hearing, the same things several times over your told
Still when you talk, your way to loud, you spit and your bold
The purses you carry, a foot locker they could easily hold
You keep your money in the mattress instead of a billfold
So how can it be said that these last years of yours are made of gold
Are they really golden or is it just something over the years you\'ve been told
Author Eileen Clark 2023
Priscilla My Mother is a painting by Anne Gifford
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