Accept the Change (poem)

Accept the Change

Adjust your mind

Accept the change

Change rings you down the ladder

Now get up

And be propelled

Through a wall of strangers

Breaking up

Catching hold

Your fingers on an arm, a sleeve

Your story, staggering in faces

Seeking sympathy

A weak attraction

To a weak idea

You feel safe

Safe and sick and small

Shouldering the burden

And that heroically

Many are sick and small

And they, made grey behind the barrier

Will no longer try

To comfortingly die

Handle with Care

(2014, Stephanie Foster)