Today's word is "senectitude" ... si-NEK-ti-tood ... the last stage of life; old age. (Dictionary.com)
Shuffle
We walk with them
in their senectitude;
we trail, not so far behind
a bit more energy in our steps.
Wondering what it feels like
inside a skin that no longer fits,
mind or soul.
Wondering how years rolled by
with all of us, barely conscious
in their wake.
We will toast to life lived well,
through wealth and poverty,
health and weaked miseries.
Yet in grateful praise of love,
Which binds our weary wounds.
Anne Selleck
Copyright 2016
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