SENIOR, RISE

Senior, Rise

Have you met your organs lately?

Have they come knocking on the door

with new found complaints

about quality of work-life at the store?

With luck there are some that haven’t failed as yet,

maybe one or two. 

 

That heart you never noticed,

does it shimmy, shake or flutter?

How many procedures have you tried?

And did they make things any better?

How about your lower back,

your upper neck,

those disks they haven’t fused as yet?

Sound like you?

You may becoming senior-ized.

I’m not just talking senior eyes

but  ears, memory and a whole lot more,

things that will no longer be ignored –

an organ concerto, if you will,

of instruments in dissonance

which know

to penetrate your hearing now

they have to screech and yell.

If this is you, senior, rise.

You’ve projects to complete.

You've heard the advice

about getting up and moving on.

Did you remember to write it down?

Dennis R. Keefe

May 1, 2009