OLD AGE

A lady of about sixty years old

Sat at the road side beneath

The lamp post opens a parcel of

Food got from a hotel opposite

She started her pathetic words

As old age is very difficult to live

No one can help even son or daughter

No shelter to live

Her hair white in look

She has no proper dress to cover

Her body, it seems months together

Lost the habit of cleaning her teeth

Someone may give a help at the gate way

Of church a little money to buy food like

To feed her hunger a little

That too she cannot eat fully

As she will keep a part of the food for

Feeding in the next session to keep away hunger

She asked me how older are you?

She started guessing above seventy?

I added that you may be correct

Then she closed the parcel without eating

And said that she may spoiled the floor

Can go to a shed and have the food

She added that Christians are good

As they help others as friend and relations

Sometimes they give food and shelter

Treat old persons with their grace

It is a pleasure to talk to her

And added that I love Jesus

Immediately she asked me

Are you a Christian?  I told her

No.., but like Christians as they are

Mostly honest and adopting a good

System of living followed with

Disciplines of Jesus

She was happy to hear my voice

And her face was a bloomed flower

She has shared her little time with me

And it is a good memorable one

Though she is an older woman

She is longing for her sons and

Daughters and departed life partner

Friends and relatives

She said that old age is very hard

To live, it is still ringing in my

Ears and mind and made to thing

About this old age

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