PRAYER FOR OLD AGE
Is this you?
Speaking your hearts truth
No matter what.
Looking the fool,
Often and long.
Feeling deep
Deep in your chest
And crying easily
at mother and child
father and child
the sunset
a spring flower.
Is this you?
Loving deep
with joyous ecstasy, deep pain,
tears, laughter,
joy and sadness
all there and welcome
welcome
The prayer of a man near the pinnacle of his life
Celebrating the day of his middle age
To live and die a foolish, passionate man
That is my prayer.