PEXELS — PHOTO BY ITALO MELO

Just A Number

Age is just a number
a place in time
slipping up on you quietly,
purposefully making its mark over time.

Age is a perspective
as we age, a state of mind
the body revealing the truth,
through the years over time.

An artist rendition
invisible, etching lines
weakening knees, creasing faces
placing lines in the corners of our eyes.

Holding Fate’s hand
deferring to your genes,
age can only accomplish
that which mother nature deems.

Young for so long
Father Time quietly waits,
while birthdays pass
and our body begins to ache.

Unreachable within
our soul can transcend,
winning life over the years
never giving in.

To be young at heart
is the secret within,
the mind untouchable
’til the very end.