Waiting for you

As we get older

the more things,

pets and people

we know or love

go to their graves

one by one

they leave us

like limbs dropping

from an old trunk

or

you will know

or love someone

who has things,

pets and people

going to their graves

one by one

until it comes

for us, too

until we become

a headshake over

a glass of beer.