Getting old poem
For a long time, I've considered myself
young-old I'm now getting old-old and
maybe I've said this stuff before but
old-old repeats, right? so here is about
my mom: If I knew then what I know
now I would have been much more help
to my old-old mother, more understanding
more helpful although I did help a lot I
would have drawn out more stories listened
for the fear behind her words realized when
she rubbed her wrist that it hurt and she
wasn't complaining because when she was
younger, she said she wasn't going to
complain when she was old because grama
complained all the time I should have told
her I'd like to hear a few complaints! she
sat blind for ten years I should have made
her walk a lot more exercise a lot more we
did all read to her, living room activity all
around her she asked my doctor brother
if he could end it for her but he said "mom
I can't, it's against the law"
2023 Jacqueline Jackson
