My poem

Ella Mahler

In my own thriving in the eighth decade
I am doing it.
It is okay.

If can make it
It is okay.

I can get up at four
(as Sylvia Plath did)
and write.

If I can just be active
Death will not conquer
yet.

If I can
Just make it
It will be okay.

Nuala O’Faolain says;
“There is no
Perfect tying up
Of the glorious mess of a life.”

From her book, One Hand and One Half , to be published 2016