199. WHAT WE TALK ABOUT NOW

199.

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT NOW

I get a call from an old friend,

we've talked weekly for years.

We used to talk about where to go 

on Friday nights, maybe Mac & Caps

for Singapore Slings or swimming 

at Square Lake on Saturday afternoons.

Then quite suddenly, if seemed everyone

 we knew got married, including us,

had babies, the babies started school, 

a nano second later, offspring graduated, 

got jobs, married, had their own babies.

Our conversations changed as we became

wives, mothers, then grandmas.

Now we talk about our health,

all of us old as Methuselah.

Aches and pains, hearing aids,

hip and knee replacements,

cataract surgery, prostate cancer,

Parkinson's, dementia and

god help us, Independent Living. 

We're all suffering to some extent

and no one's ready for tomorrow.

*comments welcome

This is me, ruminating on the state of my state.