Age A-knockin'

One day
you will look up. Look up
and you will realize
what you never meant
to be is what you have
become.

You will look up and realize -
realize
it is 3:30 in the morning;

realize
it is 34 degrees outside;

realize
that you are outside at 3:30
in the morning,
in 34 degree weathers;

realize
that you are bare-legged under
the smoking robe;

realize
that - without knowing how you arrived - you
have arrived at Age's door step;

realize
that it is not you, but Age
that knocks at the door.

You
will realize, one day,
that it is You
who
has grown old.

One day, You
will suddenly know
Age has come a-knockin'.

_{(Dec 18, 2010 3:44)}