Final Sovereignty Poem by Keith Shorrocks Johnson

Final Sovereignty



Final Sovereignty

SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD


Now a second testing adolescence
Beckons with its trials and pitfalls
Of rage and loss and acquiescence
As alertness ebbs and presence fails.

Seventy now - immaturity ahead -
I look to my elders for consolation
On how ten or twenty years are shed
Purposefully to dissolution.

Across the threshold of obsolescence
I pay court in admiration
To those who deny decay deference
And live on with quiet determination

Their indignities suffered and withstood,
In sovereignty the end makes good.

Thursday, August 27, 2015
Topic(s) of this poem: age
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Kelly Kurt 27 August 2015

A wonderful poem, Keith. Thanks!

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