What Would We do without Aging?

When I was very little,

my grandparents were important to me.

I wanted to be just like them

but didn’t know what that would mean.

I didn’t know of their aches or their pains,

or someday my own aches to please.

I only saw grandpa’s white hair and his garden,

and heard him tell stories to me.

My grandma’s house was much more than a home,

and had sleep overs, cookies with milky sweet tea.

So where would we be without aging?

‘Twould be nice if the aches weren’t to be.

Grandkids, nieces and nephews ~ or any child we know ~

needs grandparents like me and like thee.

“A child needs a grandparent, anybody’s grandparent,

to grow more securely into an unfamiliar world.”

~ Charles and Ann Morse