Extremities
My feet aren’t warm
my hands are cold,
a sign, they say,
of growing old;
my body heat
is such a treat
but at times
my extremities
feel like they freeze.
My feet get cold
and stay like ice,
and defrosting them
is never nice,
It hurts to thaw
to melt the floe;
but this is life
and age does show.
Extremities,
include my nose,
and that gets red
and I call it ‘doze!’
Graeme Sandford 