90 degrees
hot summer morning
8 am
same time every day
white shirt buttoned up
sweat insulating
his paper skin beneath
Hands firmly gripping the handles of his walker
with the same determination
that he has for life
not letting go
morning after morning
buttoning that shirt
tying those tarnished shoes
and down the hot and busy road
against the traffic and the rushing young
whose fleeting eyes somehow miss
this pure dart of life
Gaze fixed upon his target;
the next step.
He proceeds...
Sep 24, 2019
Sep 24, 2019 at 8:48 PM UTC
90 degrees
hot summer morning
8 am
same time every day
white shirt buttoned up
sweat insulating
his paper skin beneath
Hands firmly gripping the handles of his walker
with the same determination
that he has for life
not letting go
morning after morning
buttoning that shirt
tying those tarnished shoes
and down the hot and busy road
against the traffic and the rushing young
whose fleeting eyes somehow miss
this pure dart of life
Gaze fixed upon his target;
the next step.
He proceeds...