What is this getting old? We feel no different
in ourselves but the world sees us differently
and as skin relaxes into wrinkled submission,
we begin to write new stories for who we are
and what life holds. Because it has been told,
that six score years and ten, is an allotted life
even though, many live beyond and have done
always, from the age of seventy, we fall into
the trap of believing in something called 'old,'
when all we ever are, is 'being,' regardless of
age, or years, or softened skin and so much
experience, that we see the world now in a
different way to how we saw it in youth -
even though the world itself has not changed
so much, and we feel no different inside, but
life demands we pay attention in new and
more flexible ways; that we soften and fold
in on ourselves, as our skin does in humble
submission to the reality of time and years.
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