Aging/Growing

Aging/Growing.

It's comfortable now.

Being here

No longer feeling preyed upon.

It's past and I've survived.

Renewed and more alive.

Stale beer and fags

Smell comforting entirely.

So different when you're older

Conversation is a joy.

Nocturnal Creatures, all.

We laugh as we drive by.

Tracing the roads around Meath

Being devoured by the night.

Was a favourite place to hide

We'd laugh, and laugh in spite

Of all that's real like sand and stone

We let it slip beyond confusion

Grown up at last, at rest for now,

Away from all delusion

1995 ©️ Gerry Tully