It has been made too convenient, <br />For you and others... <br />To make excuses for yourselves. <br /> <br />Why should I wish for your companionship, <br />If all I am going to hear from you... <br />Is about your aches and pains and what you do? <br />And what your doctor has prescribed, <br />For you to rub or sit or bathe in it? <br />If I have to fall, crawl or stumble, <br />Unlike you... <br />I will seek to find some enjoyment out of it. <br /> <br />I am not afraid of an older age or its slower pace. <br />But I am sure not going to invite that process, <br />Being uptight or delight in agitation... <br />Your rendition of it either. <br />To watch it waste me away. <br />So I take it you are not up to going roller skating? <br /> <br />Your version of growing old gracefully, <br />And my interpretation of it... <br />Is apparently in conflict.<br /><br />Lawrence S. Pertillar<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/your-version-of-growing-old-gracefully/