Not-So-Kind Years

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm. - Thoreau

Ticker-tape parade for presidential candidate Richard Nixon

in New York in 1960

he remembers having enough oil in his wavy, youthful locks to make french fries

now dandruff fell like confetti at a tickertape parade

unable to keep up a mellowing charade

he knew that less is more

especially when trying to fit through a narrow door

no use looking in the mirror and shedding flabby, wrinkled tears

this was just the result of some

not-so-kind years

Author's Note

"As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." - Thoreau

Reviews

[Robert Haigh]

Both sad and amusing at the same time! I think the character in your poem must have the same kind of mirror that I now have! It probably does cast a true reflection, but I don't really like what it shows me these days! I enjoyed the read!

[Pete]

you and me both. my mirror laughs and cracks up when it sees me . this life is too short. we're only as old as we feel inside. thank you robert ... :)

[John the Baptist]

Yes, and I can recall when there were no liver spots on my arms. Time is remorseless, but change is the law.

[Pete]

grow old gracefully as they say. easier said than done. thoreau was right when he wrote about, "living deeply and sucking out all the.marrow of life". life is short,. never enough time... :)