Slow down..

I keep hoping my life would slow down its pace

To match the diminishing energy and advancing age that I face

Instead, in an accelerated mode life seems to stay

More responsibilities get added on, longer seems each day

Some of the constraints of youth have been lifted now

But I am not old enough where age alone would not allow

Certain aspirations to be fulfilled, therefore

I keep pushing my middle-aged self some more

To live life queen size, work hard and play harder still

Keeping my cup so full that it threatens to spill

When my body begs me to slow down and rest

There is no time, because I’ve already tried to invest

All available time to pursue goals that I feel compelled to achieve

The struggle is real, there is no reprieve

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I need to slow down, my youth has faded away

And no matter how forcefully I try to say

That age is just a number, I do realize

That pretending I have the energy of a twenty year old is unwise

If I do not cut down my list of things to do

I risk wearing myself down faster too…