Lola at 26(with apologies to Donald Justice)
If men at 40
Learn to close softly
The doors to rooms
They think will not be coming back to
It is a woman at 26
Who helps fling them open once more
Breaks them down
Prys them ajar
A life force unabated
At 40, churning still
At 50, changing lives yet again
At 60, starting anew
Our thanks for the past, our good wishes for the future
In this moment,our only moment