Now Approaching 60
I was wrong.
Wisdom didn’t arrive.
Look! A package,
unwrap it now.
Illness, aging, death –
Buddhists worship them.
Reminders of time
passing us now.
Each leaving hurt.
There’s space ahead
I don’t understand.
It’s different now.
Everything keeps changing!
the child cries.
There’s your wisdom.
Embrace it
Julie Wachowski is a wrtier from Wheaton, IL. “My poem asks the reader to seek the wisdom of embracing change, even though it hurts.”
Very real and brilliant and insightful.