Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Gen Senior Citizens!

 Senile? Hey, you gotta be kidding!

 Eager to explore? You betcha!

 Natty, but not nutty? Yippie, yippie, yup!

 Intelligent? Beyond words, you know!

 Oh, Learning to re-learn?  For SURE!

 Raring to go?  No doubts whatsoever!

 

  Casual n cool! Has to be!

  Independent! Every which way!

  Trials matter, so do errors! But, yes!

  Islands if contentment! Certainly!

  Zany yet zen-y! Could not agree more!

  Eager n aware! Nary senti never mental!

  Neither lonely nor lost! That's way to be!

  Sure of self, ne'er sore! Thus be the seniors!


 Center in a vortex! 

 That's Gen Senior citizens!

 The questions and exclamations

 Of this acrostic them define does!

 Yes, from a certain class n city-bred

 Of sterner stuff they are made!

Pratima@ Unlike their parents, and certainly unlike their grandparents, Urban Gen Senior Citizens are a different lot. With two/three tier towns in a hurry to be metros, the left-out 'oldies' in hamlets and villages, too, would soon realise that this century is theirs, too! Senior citizens grow, not grey!




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