To My Neighbors
To my Neighbors
Left and right
To the seniors of my bordering
Good morning
How are you doing?
With all the pain and ache
You dwindle as age progressing
Not easy moving without
Help of walker
You are not any more
Moving around with strength
That is to be an old age
With the stiffness of muscles and weakness
Eyes are sadder and wiser
"We are real," you say, and we are
Standing here in our zone
Life is flowing as a fountain
That is God divine if we may say it
The wrinkles, sags, the graying hair are earned
The priceless years of the past; remaining is a treasure
At the cost of many fall and rise
Still love to smell roses at Rose of Sharon
What can be done to avoid it?
As it is a rule of nature only gratitude
for golden years
And hold on loving self and your neighbor
Yeshi Gemaneh
About this poem
This poem was written based on my experience as senior living in the neighborhood of seniors home.
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Written on 2014
Submitted by yeshigemaneh on August 16, 2021
Modified on March 06, 2023
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Quick analysis:
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 775 |
Words | 158 |
Stanzas | 7 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 4, 4, 5, 4, 4 |
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