Here’s my rough draft for today, Saturday 06.20.26
Completing the Picture
An older man. An oldering, moldering man. The oldest me
Sooner to be than later, the picture finally finished,
All I will ever be, that portrait framed as all of me,
My pieced together life. I think of me as a jigsaw puzzle,
Watch closely, search too worriedly, I know, for that last piece
Hiding somewhere out there, waiting to fill out the all of me,
Whatever I have been and will finally be.
I’m a desiccating raisin in the sun,
Shrinking, grizzling, wrinkling, crinkling,
Losing my juice as it oozes from me.
Ah, hell. Instead of bitching about my finishing up
I should enjoy the endmost moments to their fullest, right?
The only regret I should have now, the single morbid thought,
Is that you, not I, will see the puzzle picture filled out.
Lanning Lee 