u/Correct_Energy_9499

After years of loyal service
I have been relegated
to a dusty ashtray armchair.

Like the elderly people
that I had no empathy for,
I am now one of them.

Like a stone figure
in a derelict garden,
not thought about and forgotten.

Encased in moss-covered flesh,
toiling in no man’s land
with a discarded washing machine.

A small deep pond nearby,
the laughter of children in the distance -
summer has once again neglected me.