Evolution

Same shoulders, same hips, same knees?

Evolution which got me here in time and place

is the same evolution which shall summarily

take me away. Although I have come to realize

the changes in considering the process, I am still

amazed. That which has grown older in me has

peaked and begun to recede. I can cry, moan and

groan, curse and plead, but change is change which

will not allow me to retain the younger me I used

to be. Slumped shoulders, arthritic hips, weak-

ened and aching knees. Look at me, the victim of

evolution time has made me out to be. Mirrors,

the adversary reflecting pathetic images of the

damned wrinkled progression of disintegration

which has all too sudden come over me. Same

shoulders, same hips, same knees? No, biolog-

ically speaking, evolution has reclaimed the

best parts of the human specimen I used to be.

Chris Hanch 12-21-19