Old men

At the coffee shop

Talk about

The old days

I think about

How time

Is slippery

And wonder

If my father

Realized

He was getting old

Or if he just

Woke up

That way

One day

The days

Are long

But the years

Are short

I’m most afraid to die

At night

But in the morning

It seems like

It won’t ever end

The old men

At the coffee shop

Make me

Want to live

Now

While I still can

While I’m still

Full of life

And strength

To do things

I still can’t believe

This will ever end

That it has to end

That that’s

Just the way things are

If I could change one thing

It would be that

To not die

To live forever

But greater men

Than me have tried

So instead I

Spend my energy

Trying to live an eternity

In a lifetime

April 05, 2023 at 11:07AM