As you age, and I write
from increasingly painful personal experience,
life becomes ever more paradoxical.
Things you once could easily do,
wanted to do often, become difficult
and some almost impossible
(get your mind out of that gutter,
I meant things like heavy lifting
And home maintenance projects).
And things you never thought
you would ever do become
the stuff of daily life (just ask
your insurance company, they
will gladly send you all the proof you want.)
And yet some things are unchanged,
and battles you fought and thought
you had won are now given over to your
children and grandchildren who
must take up the battle yet again, without
you this time, as you hope to live
long enough to see them succeed.