Sense Sonnet - Acher

 On a Picnic

A picnic in a park we share.

It is a nice and sunny day

Beckoning to this senior pair

To grab the gusto, come what may.

Upon a blanket in the grass

Our arthritic bones do crunch.

Not allowed wine we sip from glass.

Eating a high cholesterol lunch.

We skip the pills we take with meals

That make us drowsy so that we

Can better sense how freedom feels

Unrestricted as we now be.

The offsite pass is up and so

Back to the nursing home we go.