Growing old can seem like a failure
as powers fail and reactions slow.
Why, why, why when it feels
like the struggle is done
and peace pervades
do you feel a
failure?

There is
a knowledge
that you didn’t have
and now you are equipped
better than before to meet the
ever growing challenges of this
life where the world has gone mad

and is spinning ever faster into a void
of no understanding of the reasons
why nature is changing faster
than we can, or definitely
than you can as you get
older and stiffer
and slower.

Your knowing
old paths that didn’t
work and others that can
makes you larger so that you
can spread into a true growth
of humanity. This thing that we
forget – that we have the power of change,
even as we slow towards that place of peace.