"The October Of My Life"

Written for Pond Poetry contest round 80

Peering through misty WINDOWS I
pause, consider and count
the cost;
of relapsing vitality
and LUSCIOUS lands of youth,
now lost.

Then, from the corner of my eye,
now calm and COOL, I spy
my wife.
My true companion, love and friend,
in the OCTOBER of
my life.