Feeling my Age …

I feel old today, I’m visibly aging before my very eyes

I feel old today, I loathe to admit it, but it’s made me realise

I’m no longer a spring chicken

No longer love’s young dream

My crow’s feet bear no witness

To the girl that I’d once been

I feel old today, the image in the mirror is a testament to this

I feel old today, I wish I hadn’t looked, since ignorance is bliss

No longer fit and agile

No longer young, it's so surreal

I’ve known it for a long while

I’m losing all my sex appeal

I feel old today, the laughter lines are ever wrinklier

I feel old today, and everywhere else is getting crinklier

I can’t even run for a bus no more

I can’t even manage to climb upstairs

Compared to the past and what I wore

I now wear clothes my old Mum wears

I feel old today, there’s nothing to allay my fears

I feel old today, of becoming one of life’s ‘Old Dears’.

There is a key to growing old

As gracefully as can be

But once the middle years took hold

Somehow that grace eluded me

I feel old today; it’s negative but there are cons and pro’s

I feel old today, inside I’m still gorgeous I suppose

So while I might feel old today

I know I feel quite bold today

This story that I told today

Still gives me hope to hold today

When they made me they broke the mould

And that kind of news is like pure gold

I have a status to uphold

And my blessings really are three-fold

So I shouldn't fret about feeling old