I was doing my crossword
this morning
and something
was making me anxious
I couldn’t remember
what.
I was doing my crossword
and I’d forgotten
what it was
making me anxious
and then I remembered
it was death.
I am ninety one now
and I feel that I am
I don’t remember
the word,
condemned.
I may have ten years
but ten years is
a very short time
to me.
I don’t want to die
to leave all this
my little house
all of you.
Nothing to look forward to
now all can do
is to look back
into the past.
I was doing my crossword …