Five-O
Fifty isn’t old.
It’s really just a number…
How did I get here?
I don’t remember saying
goodbye to so many…
I’m scared once I break it,
like the fifty-dollar note;
the years will disappear.
Frances Macaulay Forde © 2000
(Poem No 5, ‘Return of Rainbows’; “Hidden Capacity ~ a poet’s journey”; 1st published Cork, Ireland, 2003.)
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