My sonnet 2

My sonnet 2

When your best-before date becomes less blurred

“Can he still manage”: is what you have heard

There’s not enough dye to cover your grey

You need a hearing aid. What did they say?

You are two sizes down, because you’ve shrunk

Whatever is left of that one-time hunk

You look amazingly good, you’ve been told

What they mean is, you have really grown old

And the time of day? For them it’s autumn

But they are wrong, and that’s what I tell them

In my mind it’s always spring, I stay young

A tolling bell? For me it hasn’t rung

Will I return to dust? No I will not

For I live on in the children I’ve got