Tell Me Why

 

Tell my why the beard grays with age?

Tell me why lines take over the face?

Tell me why the joints and muscles ache

and deteriorate?

Tell me why the bladder leaks and the bowels

constipate?

Tell me why the mind forgets once well known

name and place?

Tell me why easy is getting harder everyday?

When I was younger I used to wonder why

I couldn’t fly.

Used to ponder all the possibilities available

to me...

figured the world was my oyster...

thought I was 10-feet tall and bullet proof.

I never expected to see the day when I was

set out to pasture dried up and lame,

Never expected the day would come when

I had had enough of enough. And I often

wonder what lies ahead of me? Guess I got

everything and more than I deserved

coming to me.

And humming along with the lyrics

of Iris DeMent...Everbody’s wondering

what and where they all came from?

Everybody’s worried about where they’re

going when the whole thing’s done?

But no one knows for certain, so it’s

all the same to me. Think I’ll just let

the mystery be...

                   -30-

Chris Hanch 6-25-2021