I Am Too

I AM TOO TIRED TO WRITE A GOOD POEM I am too tired to write a good poem I am too cold also I have been out all day in the cold and the rain I have been doing errands since early in the morning I babysat for four hours in the afternoon I went out again in the cold and rain to buy a few groceries I tried to write and could not I read and overate a few times I tried to write But I could not I am very tired now A poem should not be a simple clear description of one’s own mood at the moment I am too tired to write a good poem But I try to write And this is the result A poor poem indeed. I AM GRATEFUL FOR THE PARENTS I HAD AND HAVE I am grateful for the parents I had and have They are still with me I miss them Sometimes they appear in my dreams When I am walking I think of them I see them at various ages of their lives My father young tall strong My mother smiling kind warm in strong middle age My father bent on his way to the senior citizens My mother in a wheelchair no longer even half herself Or in the pictures of them in their youth As I never saw them in life I think of them and miss them Their dreams their loves are in me Yesterday I was with a great – grandchild of theirs Who they never have seen or will see How happy that smiling calm child would have made them Life is difficult and long and filled with loss and blessing How I will love and miss my parents always How they still live in me And hopefully in what comes after me.