Not Fearing

I have seen hip replacements
and cataracts -- this isn't
the curtain of age people fear
to pull back.

Maybe it's the feeling of immobility,
the sense that your legs could go
at any time. And the thought
sparkles 'til you can't not look.

For eightteen days I beat these
thought welps back. I lost sight.
I moved by fingertips, by luck,
by feel. And now the only thing

I fear about getting old is if
my eyes can't see enough to be able
to pick bone slivers out of fish,
or not watching my child grow.