Five Retired Women

Five retired women
Attempt to plan a date.
Everyone is busy,
With so much on every plate.

Yoga, book clubs, beading class,
Watching tots or babies;
Trying to arrange a time
Elicits many “maybes.”

Volunteer work’s in the way,
Tennis, Zumba, travel;
Every time we choose a day,
The plan starts to unravel.

All are former teachers
And we marvel at the fact
That our leisure time, so well-deserved,
Is oh-so tightly packed.

Yet it’s comical to watch us,
With our calendars in hand,
As we try so hard to get
Some future get-togethers planned.

At last we finally succeed;
We have a date, but then,
Once we’re gathered for the next time,
It will all begin again.