Aging Braincells

Aging braincells get rewired

And one way I surely know it

Is that I am always tired 

And my face and body show it.

Even after hours of sleeping,

If I sit to read a book,

Sometimes drowsiness comes creeping

And it grabs me with a hook.

Or, if slightly after eating, 

I relax and watch TV,

I’ll doze off before completing

“Law and Order: SUV.”*

Seems within that tangled webbing

Of our brains, the gears are clicking;

Thus our energy, now ebbing,

Lets us know the clock is ticking.

*It’s really “Law and Order SVU,” but

SUV is how my husband & I refer to it.