POETRY IN OLD AGE <br /> <br />Poetry in old age <br />Is more than just Consolation- <br />Life is lived wherever we are <br />Even in the quietest perceptions- <br />Light seen and love hungered for <br />Touch us also, <br />Even if the music of our being <br />Tends to diminuendo- <br /> <br />Small and sweet <br />Kind and beautiful <br />Poems teach us to love life still- <br />Beauty too is born <br />Even to ancient eyes <br />At the welcome appearance <br />Of loved ones.<br /><br />Shalom Freedman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/poetry-in-old-age/
