A Decent Life

Poetry 1 Minute

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

Nothing unexpected

Pretty much to plan.

When you get to our age

That is all you want.

Anything from out the blue

Can only be bad news

Staying well and active

Is all we really want.

We do not have huge worries

Life is very good.

We will not win the lottery

Never enter it.

We’ve changed things in the garden

And how we grow our food

Had terrific holidays

And found great things to do.

But all of that was planned for

Nothing a surprise

I hope it won’t be different

Another twelve months time.

Our families are thriving

The grandkids growing up

Plenty things are changing

But nothing getting worse.

There’s things that happen round us

Things we do not like

Some of them are local

Some in national life.

But we’re ok we carry on

It will not get us down

We cannot go complaining

We have a decent life.

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Published by Andrew Green

I am a regular contributor to Wattpad where I write as andrewagreen. My first two collections on Wattpad were featured. My first published book Margaret’s Story - a biography of my mother in verse is available on Amazon. I live near Windsor, Berkshire and have offered my services, so far unsuccessfully, as the next Poet Laureate.

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