waiting to be old
waiting for life’s reverence
now the nearing
of the end
seventy-one
veneration or contempt?
waiting to be old
wanting to
identify the end
the middle unremembered
unknown beginning
the last page
of a novel
I should have
known
all of
my life
I have waited
to be old.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem