A poem on the poet coming to terms with her age as she leaps from her teenage years to 'adulthood'.
Tag: getting older
Older, Wiser, Happier
The poet writes about looking at the lighter side of growing old.
The Terrible Secrets of Growing Up
'Maybe all of life is yearning, to feel the same way you felt at 13, never knowing that sometimes dreams wilt away in the heat.'
Day by Day, My Mother Is Ageing
Perhaps I will grow to become a woman and age to become a mother and I’ll die to prove myself as a mortal.
On Turning 50
'Though youth is a dim memory, our glories are not.'
Turning 80 During the Pandemic
A poem on how the pandemic has stolen some of my present and future.