We Are All In This Together

Happy 49th Birthday, Calvin, (my 2nd youngest brother!)

I love and appreciate you so much!

Which means my youngest brother (above left) turns 47 in a few weeks!

They don't remember me much at home (because I am almost 11/13 years older)

 other than being one of five extra mothers (their big sisters)

The Martin Clan is growing old  up! 😅

We are all in this together; growing older, day by day

Gaining fresh courage to weather Father Time's insistent prey

Learning how to cope with changes no sleight of hand can evade

Botox only rearranges, and money cannot dissuade

We are all in this together, learning to adapt and cope

Bound by an ethereal tether testing youthful-yes/youthfulness with nope

Sooner or later the engine that once hummed with easy cheer

Needs intentional/additional attention just to sputter into gear

We are all in this together; students in Father Time's school

While his touch, light as a feather, exacts the proof of his rule

Like a token of remembrance he leaves his kiss on each brow

Acknowledging the attendance of both young and old somehow

We are all in this together so let's give the best we've got

We are growing older whether we admit its truth or not 

Sooner than we care to mention Time steals youth's sleek, purring cat

Leaving us an old steam engine huffing-puffing down the track

We are all in this together; nobody is out of reach

As we learn to learn and weather lessons only Time can teach

As with unspoken reluctance we accede our slowing stride

While feigning brave-faced nonchalance (for Time is not on our side)  

We are all in this together; left-foot-right-foot-left-let's-go 

Smooth-as-silk-skin turns to leather, raven locks turn white as snow

While once-starry-eyed-successors to their grunting, groaning peers

Join the ranks of predecessors weathered by a few more years 

Love, from you big sis aka

Janet Martin

Lol! While not all of this may apply to my younger siblings, yet....

give it time. It will! 😁