“Impending Mortality”

There are times in one’s life when one when one finds oneself
Faced with one’s impending mortality.
We live our lives in stages;
First we are infants and blithely

Then we are children and full of innocence,
Then we grow up and innocence is lost.

We go through that foolish time when
We feel we are “ten feet tall and bulletproof”
Taking stupid risks, uncaring of the
Possible (read probable)

Drunk driving, uncaring use of
Illegal and dangerous substances.

Years go by, the body is worn out.
A kind of wisdom settles in,
But is it too late?

In the near ground, all is rocks and desolation;
In the distance the future is obscured and

IS there a future for me?
What will tomorrow bring?
Will I die in this minor surgery?
Will I live to get a new hip?
Will I find a new and
Better place to live?
Only tomorrow will tell.

“Impending Mortality”

^by
Jerry E Smith
©9/16/18

^{A word of explanation, if you haven't been following my saga.
For more than I year I was in pain, increasing pain, which the Veterans Administration
(the VA where I got all my medical care) said it was 'sciatica' and was treating me for
That, but I knew and insisted that it was my hip.
I proved right, after almost exactly a year when in June I got an outside medical
Examination and diagnosis; I need a hip replacement.
So tomorrow I'm going for a often postponed cosmetic surgery, the hip replacement
Will be at the VA's GLACIAL pace, and all the while I am still in pain.
Then on top of everything, I may be forced to move sometime
In the next two months, at just about the time I hope to be having the hip surgery.}

^{These .gifs were created for me by @coquiunlimited; many thanks}