Youth, Day, Old Age and Night

by Ronni Bennett, ChangingAging Contributor

Lately, I’ve been reading some poems about old age. A large number are painful, angry or sad. And then there is this one:

Youth, large, lusty, loving – youth full of grace, force, fascination,
Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace,
force, fascination?

Day full-blown and splendid – day of the immense sun, action,
ambition, laughter,
The Night follows close with millions of suns, and sleep and
restoring darkness

– Walt Whitman 1819-1892

At The Elder Storytelling Place today, Stroppy: Losing Things