Lost my sense of smell awhile ago.
My extremities are going numb.
My hearing could use an aid,
and yes, so could my vision.
Taste remains intact; I lean to fat.
As most senses shrink, 6th expands.
I’m becoming an insightful lump.
Once the shell fades to naught,
does my twinkle of consciousness
zoom away to play as stardust?
Tao Talk 
I love the final two lines Lisa :-)
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Thanks much, Carol Anne.
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Along with Carol Anne….those two last lines are great…but yea I CAN relate to the poem! Very much so.
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Thanks, Max. It is an incremental descent. Sorry you can relate to it also. You’re a spring chicken compared to this old hen.
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lol…well thank you for saying that but I sure don’t feel like it some days! I’m going to get out in a few minutes with Martha and walk her in the park…just for us to get out and move.
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Glad to hear you’re going to get out there in it. Older son and I are headed over to GR in about an hour to go walking with other son and his family. Older son has been so busy with work and school he hasn’t been able to join us on Tuesdays for awhile :(
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We had a great walk! I took my headphones and had Ron call me…so I walked Martha while I talked to him.
So happy you are getting with your family Lisa…hope you get to see your grandchild!
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Hi Lisa, a sixths sense is a great thing to have. An interesting closing question.
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Thanks much, Robbie. I hope it is so.
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I look forward to being stardust. But it’s true, my senses are also unreliable and unpredictable. I take comfort in what Monet produced as he was losing his vision…and what Matisse created while bedridden. We adapt. (K)
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<3
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This is very profound Li
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Thank you, my friend <3
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Li, you’re most welcome 🌺
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Stardust sounds kinda nice, though, doesn’t it ? :-)
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Yes it does.
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Boy, oh, boy…like Bette Davis said: getting old ain’t for sissies, or something like that. Wonderful poem and cadence and thought procession, Li! So funny that this was your topic, considering this week I got my annual and, even though we TRY to do all the right stuff: very little red meat, desserts only on the weekend, fruits and veggies, exercise, and I personally don’t drink or smoke–guess what? All for nothing, apparently. Test results came back with high cholesterol!!! Omg, wtaf?! lol I gotta laugh, or I’ll cry.
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Stacey, DON’T TRUST DOCTORS. They have sold their souls to the devil for the almighty green. They have invented devious ways to get us to start taking pills. If you feel healthy, that’s what matters. I went a couple of years back and they classified me as “pre-diabetic” WTF is that I wondered. They said they’d like to put me on something called metphormin (sp?) for it. I declined. When I read the output sheets later it said they’d prescribed it to me anyway. The next time I had to go in they had it in their charts I was taking it, and I said no I don’t want it I wasn’t taking it remove that from my medical notes, but the tech said she didn’t have that power. I said well talk to someone who does and get it done. I did research on metphormin (sp?) and it is not a good drug. Sorry to ramble on about it but I see medical people having very few useful qualities (appendectomies, sewing up accident victims, etc.) and so many more evil qualities (like getting people on prescriptions they don’t need, coercing them into expensive tests they don’t need, killing with chemo, etc.) PLEASE SAY FUCK THEM AND LAUGH
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Thanks for sharing, Li. I hear you!! I know, I know. A year ago when it was first elevated they said it needed to go down. I thought I was addressing it by all the good habits I mentioned. But it’s not like I NEVER eat bad stuff, and I can’t think of/find a substitute for deli meat for lunch, which we eat a few times a week, and when work is busy I don’t have time to exercise. That combined with age…it’s a losing battle. Possibly genetics, but I’ll never know since I was adopted. At any rate, yeah, I’m still determined to double down on the lifestyle habits. Pills are not for me unless it’s to keep me alive. According to THEIR numbers, EVERYONE’S pre-diabetic. At any rate, props to you for your pushback. I know you know your own body and what you’re eating and how you’re treating it, and if you’re teetering on the edge of doom and destruction, you’d know it, right? Don’t just shove pills at us!! This on top of everything feeling like a conga line. Doctor comes in, jots down stuff, goes out. No time to say much. Too many people. What a life.
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Good point, Stacey, they consider EVERYONE pre-diabetic, just like they consider everyone pre-dead lol. We are commodities that a lot of people make a lot of money off of in one way or another. Fear is what they conk us over the head with. We are born with an expiration date, and there is no cure for that (yet!?)
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