Please note that this is not a reflective, personal piece of writing. My feeling is that we are all in the process of aging, so we might as well accept the course of nature with grace--or turn back the hands of time if you can afford it!

~*~

I wish that I were young again,
For the blush of youth has gone,
I'd sing out loud a new refrain
Of life's eternal song.

The joy of life and living
Would fill me head to toe,
The loving and the giving
From me would surely flow.

But time has withered up my soul,
No longer do I sing,
The years have taken a mighty toll
And changed most everything.

There was a time when I'd despair,
A spot upon my face,
Now wrinkles crease it everywhere,
Oh, to age with grace!

~*~