COMING OF AGE AT 50

How joyously they spent the passion
Of their youth
Trusting and sharing--
Testing their potential.

Struggling and surviving
Replaced with
Exhausted dispassion
Quixotic expeditions.

Maturity led them to relax
Into less strenuous
Emotions, trusting in and
Releasing to eventualities.

Gentle underpinning of their
Middle age
Selfless empathy pricked
By descendent remembered.