Great poem Cindy! Have missed you on my website lately. Too busy? Anway, one day we will all be old. What we do with our lives now is so important. Respect and reverence for the elderly is in the Bible. It's NOT optional. These modern day Christians who have no time for others are NOT Christians.
AMEN

Very touching and heartfelt piece. What a wonderful message you captured in your beautiful poem. By the way, I am having a poetry contest that benefits Riley Hospital for Children. If interested, please click on "events" on my page.

So many people, including family, abandon the elderly. During my formative years, I would drive hundreds of miles out of my way to visit an old friend or elderly relative. I was always amazed at the history and wisdom they shared with me.

I visited my uncle once again last September. He greeted me with a sparkle in his eyes that can no longer see well and listened intently to what I have to say with his ears that required special assistance to hear. He has turned 100 since. I do not know what possessed his son to put him in that assisted apartment, when he could have lived out his life on his farm where his daughter-in-law now takes in people needing assistance. True to his nature, he calls where he lives, “heaven.”

Ron

Well said, Cindy. God bless.