Too Old And Aging

Lawrence S. Pertillar 1947 (Connecticut)



Too old and aging.
Before everyone's eyes to see.
Two candidates debating,
Their different versions...
Of what reality for them should be.
Long to have faded,
Away from today's reality!
The time has come
For both to be replaced.
To accept their mentalities,
Are desperately more in need...
An updated overhaul to observe and see,
A future to ignore...
Belongs these days in the minds of those,
Unconfined and limited to times lived...
Gone.
Even to resuscitate to revive and carry on.
Will not change the rapid pace,
Of a way of life to face as is.
Nolonger to be lived,
In a society that represents a democracy...
More ethnic and diversified.
And much more competent to identify,
Those too old and aging.
Needing assistance,
To step aside and awaken to realize...
A future to continue the growth of it.
Has to be recognized to know,
When flowers bloom to begin to wither...
Eventually they die.
Turn to dust.
And useless to reminisce,
To anyone doing this in the hope...
What had existed to perceive magnificent,
Can be relived to fiction...
That which had been,
Could be re-created to crave.
With time to waste deluding it done!
For some and not all,
Celebrating the past.
And visiting cemeteries.
Where their ancestors are buried.
Pushing up weeds and not a single blade,
Of grass to see grow!
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Written on July 06, 2024

Submitted by lpahtillah on July 06, 2024

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Scheme ABACBDBEFBGBHIJKKLMJBNOAPQRSTOUVWYZZ1 Z2 3 4 G5 S
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 1,297
Words 269
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 44

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