We Sigh for Different Reasons- June 13, 2025

looking at the elderly, the youth’s

sigh embraces the pity of decline

looking at them, our ancient exhale

agrees - What happened to me?

as if time hired a micro-surgeon

to slowly bend or break bones to get

to work, thinly slicing off muscle

and a miniature chef to stew calories

into ladles of fat, a minute masseuse

to stretch the skin, someone else

to whitewash the eyes, another to

plug and unplug brains and memory

there is one thing you’d think that

grows with age - wisdom

as we we climb ladders and fall

trip putting on pants, bruise our heads

on hard corners, get scammed and

eat too much

any sigh from those lips

covers a slew of stupid sins