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POEMS ABOUT AGEING
Poems about the old and ageing--their thoughts, hopes, pains and prayers.
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Entry #393777, added on 12-20-05 @ 10:22 am EST
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THE FINAL BURDENEntry #393777
THE FINAL BURDEN

[The burden of old age]

As I near the biblical
Figure, four score and ten,
I know that now I must go,
But yet I don’t know when.

As I look back at my life,
I cry as well as smile.
For a while I’m comforted,
I feel a pain awhile.

I’ve seen many a summer,
And winters I have seen.
Through sunlit paths, as also,
Dark alleys I have been.

But now that I am fragile,
Sunshine scorches my skin.
Yet in the shade I shiver,
My age I just can’t win.

My movements are now painful,
My creaky joints are stiff.
My breath is now so labored,
I crave for just a whiff.

I thank you Lord, for all the
Kindness that you have shone.
But as I end my journey,
All of my strength is gone.

Though it is as You willed so,
My old age I do fear.
Please call me back unto you,
This burden I can’t bear.

M C Gupta
20 December 2005
© Copyright 2005 Dr M C Gupta (UN: mcgupta44 at Writing.Com). All rights reserved.
Dr M C Gupta has granted Writing.Com, its affiliates and its syndicates non-exclusive rights to display this work.
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