Like the light switch in the bathroom
I am on when I awake
The soldier I must have been in a past life rises,
Finds her feet in seconds and stands alert, weapon drawn
Ready to do battle, clear eyed and invincible.
The stranger in the mirror startles me
A woman no longer young tries to stare me down.
I pretend indifference, a calm I do not feel.
The echos of many voices come to me saying,
No, it's only a number.
I would never have guessed your age.
I smile and pat the taunt flesh of their cheek or arm,
Thank them for the compliment,
but inside I am thinking,
Good, then trade with me, just for today.
Yep.
ReplyDeleteAbout to hit 40 and I feel this same way. What's your number? (By the way, I have this fantasy where I fly out to stay with you for a few days and you take me dancing.) :)
ReplyDeleteAs the body gets older, mind gets younger..
ReplyDeleteDont let the latter idle. :)
Brook has been here Variations but we never got around to dancing. I promise if you come we will. In fact I know you and Brook and I could rock this town.
ReplyDeleteXyzandme, I first tried to spell it backwards but emdnazyx made no more sense than the other. Still all are welcome especially the young at heart. My husband keeps saying I'll get over this youthful attitude but that is just wishful thinking on his part. I was just having a bad mirror day. I'm over it.
I wanna know why you tried to spell it back wards :/
ReplyDeletexyz & me kind of phonetic..
Sorry, no offense meant. I was just home from work and feeling literal. I have a strangely wired brain, a wordsmith but a bad speller. I don't always see patterns in words, just learn them from memory. I do have a good memory or I would not be blogging. I promise I will be more gentle with your non de plume hence forth. Am I forgiven?
ReplyDeleteah no offense taken...
ReplyDeleteI genuinely wondered what made you spell it backwards :)
I am very poor at memory.. but am still blogging :p
And am no one to be asked for forgiveness :)
When I become a perfect person I shall not ask you for forgiveness, but until then we are just two sinners in an ocean full of the same.
ReplyDeleteThen its better that we dont ask for forgiveness from each other :)
ReplyDeleteAgreed.
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