Have you read About me yet?
So here I am, comin’ round the bend in my stages of life. And it occurs to me, there’s a reason why I bought a refrigerator magnet that says Do More of What Makes You Happy. Do you do that? Guess what I choose in the poem below.
The Next Stage
A tectonic shift in life occurs
racing to the next mile marker.
Youth and middle age behind,
we peer
beyond the line.
This time
we will choose.
We’ve earned that right.
Read carefully
and then apply.
Wrinkle-free?
Slap on an age-defying
mystical cream
or pull on press-free
dungarees and tee.
Duty-free?
Must have
a tax-free everything-watch
or toss off the Timex and live,
task-free with exuberant flair.
lillian the home poet 