Now in your 65th year

In your 65th year
by Norma Bruce

Do your shoes squeak
and your knees creak?
Does your nose run
when you’re having fun?
Do your chin hairs
appear in flares
of righteous self pity
and poetry so witty?

Does your inner self
demand more wealth?
Do your feet hurt
and the tomato squirt?
Does it all hang out
so you want to shout
Enough’s enough
Life’s getting tough?

Does the sky look bluer
and your last love truer?
Do little snacks matter
and make you fatter?
Do you know it all
right before the fall?
Calm all those fears
Welcome to your “Golden Years.”