I WILL AGE Francie Lynch

Francie Lynch I Will Age I wish to age like a wrap-around porch In a thunder storm, While generations tell tales, Sipping drinks. A porch of blinking stars, A place to run out of rain, With wooden steps for deliveries, With ascending and descending friends. I will age like a tree, grow stronger in the wind; Give shade and shelter to all Beneath my ring-aged limbs. I wish to age as a river bends,  Contiguous with all shores; Floating everyone I know On eternal waters defying death, A current winding with no rest. I will age like a star, Burning bright, giving light, Something to reach for. I wish to age like a mountain, With secret caves and riches. And you can rock your soul Around, over or through, Solid, snow-capped summit, Beckoning you. I will age as the moon, In stages, full and new; Each night different, Unnoticeable fading,  As all who age will do.