In Our Time
someday
with our aching knees
where all the life
has drained and left us
cold and tired and old
we’re going to tell our kids
that we were so close
to something better than this
hoping that they don’t ask
what we did to try and stop
the things that kept running
in all the wrong directions
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Phew, I feel this anxiety every day. Poetry helps some, but good ole fashion letter writing…or some other meaningful action.
I agree. I think letter writing is a good idea.
sometimes it takes our kids (or the thought of our kids) to keep us honest
Truth. I’d never give them up.
“we’re going to tell our kids
that we were so close
to something better than this”
I hear this on repeat. <3
It’s what came to me first. I was just staring at them doing thier thing and realized someday they were going to ask.