Heavy Fuel

Age is no better, hardly so well, qualified for an instructor as youth, for it has not profited so much as it has lost. - Thoreau

look at me

what happened

what have i become

how did i get undone

it's as if youth and aged are having a duel

and youth lost

no longer cool

swimming in the shallow end of the pool

running on fumes

all out of heavy fuel

Author's Note

"As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves." - Thoreau