BUCKET LIST

[Maureen K Clifford]

BUCKET LIST .. Maureen Clifford © The #ScribblyBarkPoet

My bucket list awaits, but I fear it is holed …
The bucket that is –
for all my get up and go has got up and gone
and my mantra has changed.

I still visualize doing this, doing that,
but my body cries out ‘Who are you kidding’.
Legs that have given good service now cry ‘enough’
along with feet that have tramped thousands of miles.

Age is insidious, it creeps up, stealthy and sneaky.
We know it is coming; we desperately do what we can
to ward it off – delay its arrival.
But one day like an unexpected visitor – it arrives.

And it stays, unwanted, unwelcome, uncalled for
not required - and yet here it is!
It has stolen my life, and my dreams – but unselfishly
has left the bloody bucket.

13.04.25