Ninety
Ninety is a mixed but welcome blessing.
In simply being, knowing, loving, wanting --
Not without pain, not without thoughts of rest,
Each day an arduous, familiar test --
There is joy, a music sweet but haunting,
Yearning for the grace it is expressing.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
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