post-holiday blues
from a leaden sky
rainfall
© Rachel Green August 2023
Mom never got to feel
what it was like to be sixty.
Now that I am, I could tell her
it feels no different
than when you were fifty, or forty
or twenty-five years old;
just that nothing works as well as it used to
and you don't bouce when you fall over.
© Rachel Green August 2023
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