Reaching old age

By Colin Ian Jeffery

PROMPT — What is Love?

Time fleeting in its passing

Spurring memories

Recalling images of long ago

When life seemed endless

Safe from Death’s stalking shadow.

As a boy thinking as a child

Seeing only bright summer days

Friendships I thought lasted forever

Parents who could never die

Old age some distant foreign land.

Now I walk with fellow elderlies

Old bones with old man troubles

Wondering how long before Death

No longer stalks but claims me

Then time no longer fleeting but ended.

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Colin Ian Jeffery is an English poet of the modernist movement with development of imagism stressing clarity, precision and economy of language. He has a strong reaction against war, tranny and oppression of truth and innocence, but unlike other poets in the modernism movement like Dylan Thomas and Ezra Pound, he has a profound faith in God. Colin writes from Caterham, England.