It's time to change places ... why is that so hard?

We start so eager to be in charge -- you tell the story so well I feel as if I was there

You watched your Pop - my grandpa - drive that car - shift those gears- you couldn't wait till it was your turn to be behind that wheel -- perhaps a symbol of the wheel of life

Now you are 96 - soon to be 97 and time to switch places is creeping forward ... this time it's not with your father but with your child

That child may need to make decisions you thought belonged only to you

Life seems so unfair

Yesterday you did it all

Today's reality is crashing down as you ponder the time you thought would never come

You ask - Where has all that time gone?

I'm not ready to change places .... yet.

Copyright 2009 Susan Williams