Canes Reach Poem by Hugh Green

Regrets - rocking chaired thoughts bound to arthritic reasoning
Eating as cancerous pacmans the joy counted fleeting moments
Have stolen light, replacing it with worn dark thoughts of inevitability
Where slippered health dwindles upon receding lines of beauty
And bulging lassitude extends fore and aft - capsizing the vessel of godliness
Teeth chattering with gossip held in cleansing manners of bedside
While coke bottled glasses stoke the unseen horrors of bitter aging
Nothing is heard for children and angels have abandoned in fear
The grudging, tainted words that expel - quivering voiced arrows to innocence
Long lost to wisdoms cynical twisting of youth - choked of time ticked
That smile forgotten seniled between dawn and dusk
Should haves, could haves and didn't haves of poison - to live without!