Live long enough
and enough becomes more
then was once imaginable.
It is not resignation
to the seemingly insoluble
problems making the young
passionate and high strung;
nor to youth’s perception
that old people are stuck
in the past, and even the mud.
No, the old are simply elated
that problems which once made them
passionate and high strung
have been overcome.
The old simply have
more hope for
and less fear of
the future the young will live
with greater energy;
a future which the old may not live to see.
Reluctance to become irate,
wave arms and raise voices of dismay,
may simply be the wisdom to see
no problem is without a solution.
It just my not come for a few more days.
Truly, the old and the young
are writing the same story.
They are merely on different pages
in the book of life.
annarino writes 