Age Concern

I am ageing,

the world I thought I knew

 is in flux around my unsteady feet,

contorting in metamorphosis

as traditions, conventions 

codes and civilities

that, once held dear, lie

butchered and defeated

by the sniggering barbs

of wanton change;

change without progress,

a weakening fluidity

for facile inertia

easy meat, fast-food humour

masquerading as a fashionable

paradigm, 

hollow and politically toothless,

I am ageing

the world I thought I knew

is demented and 

recognizes me no longer

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© Graham Sherwood 06/2019