BECOMING NINETY YEARS OLD - NEW FROM DAVE ALTON

Becoming Ninety Years Old
(For Margaret Alton, b. 1927)

Long, long was a year to the child,
Yet so quickly ninety passed by
It seems, how nine decades can fly,
As if life itself so beguiled
By living, that time being compiled
Was barely noticed. Just how sly
The clock in its counting, how “I”
Lives on in long memories filed.
Ninety years are a goodly sum,
Trumping scripture’s ordinance,
Too many friends already passed
And a husband who has become
A still raw absence. Fate or chance?
Whichever, this life has been cast.

                                                  

Dave Alton