Calvin Ross
Poetry for Aging
Invest your best in dwindling time,
For it’s a-dwindlin’ straightaway,
Let aging open natural rhyme.
Walk arm in arm with friends to find
how better to risk, to give, to play,
Invest your best in dwindling time.
Kneel before a presence Divine,
Hear whatever silence may say,
Let aging open spiritual rhyme.
Take the narrow less trodden climb
past wider paths that lead astray,
For certain it’s a-dwindlin’ time.
Sing lyrics by Handel line by line,
Sing “Halle-Lu!” Sing “Hallelujah!”
Let aging open Messiah’s rhyme.
As now you hear that distant chime,
Expansively love, forgive, and pray.
Invest your best in dwindling time,
Let aging open Kingdom rhyme.
Editor’s Note: Calvin Ross, formerly poet laureate of Tennessee, has written more poems for this website. including poems to celebrate the New Year and Keeper of the Plains.
