Sense Sonnet - Steamer

 Presumptuous Children

I listen as my children tell

Me the way they think I should die.

Children do presume, meaning well,

That parents want them to supply

Death how to tips for old of age.

My children quote the poet who

Wrote I should go out in a rage.

I smile, what's a parent to do!

I let my children advise on.

I am too old and tired to fight.

I look forward to each new dawn,

And go gentle into each night.

I hear what my children do say,

But I will die in my own way.