Empty Chair Poem by Ron Willis

Empty Chair



I will be old
and in my favorite chair,
the way old people so often are,
and you will say,
ah, if I had only known you
when you were younger.
And I'll say you could have,
I was younger only
yesterday.

Ron Willis
Saturday, November 21, 2020
Topic(s) of this poem: aging
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