POEM: What's ahead?

Here I sit at 92

What is the next thing

I should do?

Backwards, forward

stuck between.

What to do — where to go?

I’m still breathing (maybe slow)!

Is there a future?

I’d like to know.

So, Dear God, an answer please,

Set this weary mind at ease.

VIRGINIA BURNET

Coeur d’Alene