Ageing, what it means

Years pass without a whiff of murmur,
gossamer clouds dissipating in the sky;
If happiness is a whirlpool in the river
Pain too is a fading scar on memory.
Voices jar on the wavelength,
a perpetual melee daunting to the ear.
Once the cacophony peters out
emerges the calm cadence of order.
Life is never a bouquet to the living
a surprise always on the fringe;
Beyond the rim of stinging chaos
hope beckons, a distant rose?