These lines are written in response to a prompt on https://weeklyprompts.com/2023/02/11/weekly-prompts-weekend-challenge-old/

The prompt was to write on the word “old”

Old

Movements have slowed down

Even thoughts stutter and fail

Anchored in the past

Old shivers in present’s snow

Fumbling losing balance

Each step they walk ahead

While new slides on shiny skates

With an ease and fluent grace

Old hides in dark shadows

Of an inescapable death

©️ShashikantDudhgaonkar