Near Fifty-Nine by Leonard M HawkesThe sliding is not difficult—
Incident to age;
A halting, hesitant decline,
A trembling on the page.
Evident in simple chores,
The forgetting what we know,
A change in gait, new gravity,
“Submission” makes it so.
09/05/2010 Author's Note: Started in some meeting sometime, but completed in Fast and Testimony Meeting, 5 September 2010.
Posted on 09/05/2010 Copyright © 2025 Leonard M Hawkes
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