Poem by Bobby Goosey, "Reflections Upon Turning Ten"

 

Bobby Lee Goosey

 

Reflections Upon Turning Ten

Living in a daze, in a daze nowadays,

Living in a double-digit daze.

Thought I’d live forever

In the single-digit phase,

Thought I’d be forever young,

But years and months and days

Have vanished like a moist cold drop

Of mistdrip in the haze.

 

Since my birthday (now I’m ten)

I’m living in a daze,

Getting old, decrepit, muddled,

Getting older, weak, befuddled,

Just a double-digit widget,

Here I sit and squirm and fidget,

Nine more decades: triple-digit!

Living in a double-digit daze.