Suddenly
It all passes in the blink of an eye.
Dewy skin.
Bright eyes.
Acute hearing even.
Hair everywhere you don’t want hair to be
while the hair you want has gone missing.
It all passes in the blink of an eye.
The ability to jump.
Just jump, any height for any reason,
Down a step.
Up
No longer able to even envisage
that once youthful energy.
It all passes in the blink of an eye.
Suddenly, a baby boy is thirty years old.
Suddenly, he no longer needs your help
To eat or walk or talk.
Suddenly, he’s a man.
And you, you are an old woman.
I don't see old! I just see lots of wonderful living that's happened and is still going on :)
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