Read Poem: Keeping Up With You, by Annie Thomas

How well you laugh away my fears
Of growing old.

There is no time for getting stale
Because you nudge me ’round to see
The joys of breathing out,
So breathing in will come faster
And always more delicious.

Now, I seek out the shade:
Puff out steam, cherish the cold
I bring it home to you
Just to watch your toes curl up.

My shopping list for you, dear friend
Gets filled up with clichés so fast
I don’t know what to write to you
That you’d read without just slipping your glasses
Further down your nose
And wondering was this really
Addressed to you.

So I sing you the same few jingles
Varying only the notes and gusto
About how I truly fall more
In love with you each day
And tack on some hoorays and hugs
Repeating that I really mean it

Feeling luckier and luckier every squeeze
And more and more at home.

Genre: Sad, growing older, content.