Passing by the retirement home

En route to work, I wave to them,
dying women behind glass,
with frail fingers they reply,
thinking it a pass.

While standing on death's doorstep
with wrinkled breast and skin,
somewhere there's a girl in them
thinking I want in!

They're in wheelchairs, for gods sake,
they burp and fart and drool
someone wipes their ass for them
thinking she's a fool.

What respect must dying have?
Why bow we? Why shed tears?
Is it for them I give a damn
or am I waving at my fears?

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