Slowly Slowly Old Man

The aches and pains are temporarily gone Life is good again Crankiness irritability Are no longer necessary No pain.-no complaint And yet I know I am not as free as I was I cannot just get up and move the way I want Without thinking about it I must watch this movement this way And that movement that Hurt comes from stepping wrongly Disaster waits in any slip to a fall Caution is needed and carefulness required slowly slowly old man the world or some of it is still open before you but watch the way you get to it and go through it a little bit at a time and with rest on the way safety to yourself above all and interest in it -real still- but less.