This one is for us: The ones who have known joy and laughter, pain and tears and have found the end a bit cruel, yet we wouldn’t have “missed the dance.”
These five stages of grief are: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance.
~Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Acceptance turns to nostalgia
as I turn 75 tomorrow
Another year added to a long
interesting life
There is a sense of grief at this age
looking back and looking forward
Grief for the loss of what once was
realizing change is inevitable
Watching the next generation
moving on without you
Knowing someday, they too
will look back wishing
they had asked more questions
of the living
The future is a bit unsettling as
control may be forfeited
to someone else’s care
I pray that will not happen
I have wrestled with God
Argued with him threatened him
and been angry with him
At this point in life I have made
my peace with God and eternity
Some things are better left unknown
The subtle losses seem to hurt the most
There is anger at…
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