Growing old alone 

Has benefits to own.

No need for reassuring

(The very idea is boring!);

Company is at best

An interruption of rest

No need for noisy chatter

From mouths that do not matter;

No reminders in another's face

That time is moving on apace.

And when time makes its concession

To the Reaper taking possession

Better a detached but caring voice

Would be my own considered choice.

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