Showing posts with label how old am I. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how old am I. Show all posts

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Mirror, mirror, how old am I?


How old am I
                       you asked me
as though I were here first
                       which I was
You were talking with your Grandma
                        enjoying and knowing she'll be
passing soon...

My cousin was born when I was a decade
                        or so already checked-in
She just passed Route 30,
                          her two young girls fine blonde hair
flying in the wind-will be snarled soon enough
                          stopping at the next town “Generation"
just passing thru...

A childhood friend who lost his mother
                            before I could find him again
noticed the 5 o'clock shadow of quitting time
                             resigned to put in some over-time
got a promotion of fast-track
                             merging lane, death draws closer 
but he blazes by....faster than 65

Last time I checked, I was wise
beyond my years
double checking lines, they cue my fears
the scale to weigh the time
gets heavier with one foot off
gauging the mass I now carry
until weightless without reflection.

Composed 4/12/15.




Image By Shymanski, Robert [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons. 1933, Hegeler Carus Mansion. 




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