PRESENT ETERNITY
If she had to cut her coat
According to her cloth,
The old girl knew
It was going to be a damn thin coat,
Nowhere near thick enough
To keep out the cold.
Glancing into a passing shop window,
She felt absolutely fed-up,
For the coat she had been wearing
For all of her present eternity
Was thin, too, and wrinkled,
Needing an iron.
But, sighing, she knew she would
Patch it up a few more times
Before she was ready to change it.
© Gwen Grant
Poems by Gwen Grant 