when he was a younger man he read about old men
who wanted wives to take care of them
he thought how selfish that was to want a woman
as a caregiver instead of as a wife to love and be grateful for
now that he’s an old man he still feels the same way
and would never want to burden a girlfriend or a wife
with having to take care of him
he’d rather be alone than subject a woman to be little more than hired help
he’d rather be alone than put a woman through the
agonies and the stresses of being a caregiver wife
and all his life he’s worked out and taken care of himself
with the hope he never becomes so debilitated
that he needs to be taken care of and lose
his lifelong freedom and independence
bob boyd
Author: BobBoyd
Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-)
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