As they approach
your relaxed droop stiffens
your body tightens
each cell constricting.
You’re too old for
oppositional defiance
yet you shiver with it.
“Myself!” I hear your
two year old self echoing
through the decades. “No!”
But look,
this is a time of change,
and nothing changes without effort.
You have experts at your fingertips
and you refuse support and aid
because
Why, exactly?
You were so ready to fly,
and you’ve gone so far,
but now you’re quivering beneath the nest
while the parents flap about squawking
about winter migration,
and that cat on the porch.
You heedlessly tuck you head
beneath your wing
to nap.
Shawn L. Bird 
dig this shawn….lines 5 6 and 7 certainly speak volumes….
Thanks, Don
It would be nice and easy if we could blame cellphones and social media for this !
and yet,
not necessarily warranted.
Absolutely not necessarily warranted, but it’s easy, so people do it.
Ppreciate it! 🙂
😉
Change, the one constant, runs into the chimeric wall of overthought.
Oh, indeed!