Age Will Not Weary them and the Years Condemn

Good day all,

I've been hearing about our poor suffering seniors in the news. There are certain retirement homes that just aren't up to scratch, but the news has me thinking about another phenomenon so common to us.

We as a society well in Australia at least have the attitude of shipping our elderly off to a home, the idea of truly helping our older family members is inconceivable.

Sometimes I think it's sad to live in a world where people's only option for care and welfare are strangers, on the other hand it's great we have these services. But it's tragic the poor way some of our elderly are being neglected and I truly hope it's not another important issue people will bury their heads in the sand about. Anyway people enjoy my poem.

Age will Weary them and the Years Condemn

Into the night the cold night
Strolled a octogenarian
The white halo of the retirement home
Lost on her
The wilderness of younger faces
Younger times younger memories
always greener

Round them up and bar them within
These Alabaster pens
Where moral bankruptcy begets decay
But only For the love of the grey haired and the balding
(And only for the love of the money)

We will carry them away through the wild into the false halo of their gatekeepers

We will not remember them