Weather Warning
This apprehension rumbles –
one only audible to me?
I fear the threat of loneliness
Of old age’s inherent adage
being forced by the separation
which is executed under my hand
but has been otherwise decreed
I fear finding that all time has gone
and is then a compression to death
and then the flatline without recovery
I fear for the future of my children
because we have stolen their hope
I fear someone finding me frozen
in a bed
or chair
without them knowing me well