(This is from one of my poetry collections, I’m not writing much poetry at present due to my illness, so I will be re-posting older poems until I am up and running again).
When we were young
Wearing thrift store clothes like raw diamonds
Unshaved legs soft in abandon
One pair of shoes, muddy by door
Tumbling into bed without washing
Seemed like hair grew over night
And every day we woke fresher
Favorable light is youth
A supple branch that bends
We sat opposite each other cross-legged
Nimble in rolling weed
Feeling everything
Each other’s fluid tread
The children in our future
Kicking impatient song
Staying up all night
Laughing at where time had gone
We had plenty for every record
Listening carefully
See the message
Head back in dream
Impregnate the future
With transposed screen
When we were older
Cold the tiles this time of year
Flossing by the sink
Seeing bags and thinning hair
My breasts
Surely didn’t hang so low
Why does it take so long
To prepare ourselves?
First the mask
Then the teeth
Finally the wig
Are we in age
Madam Tussaud’s wax figures?
Where did sleeping on laughter
Shift to carefully preserved?
But as I climb into bed next to you
Cold limbed
A light headache
I feel the same
Peace
The familiar
And age falls from me
As leaf from tree
To become dormant and turn to bud
With new season
Such is time
When you are
With me
Absolutely beautiful depiction of time passing but love remains the same❤️
Prayers of love that you feel better 💕
I started reading Book Three…Firebird, When You Go…so good, Candice. Don’t ever stop writing.
Love this, love you! X
Beautiful!! 💜
Love this. Feel better soon, Candice. Many hugs your way.💕
Beautiful! Hope you feel much better soon.
I think, also, this: what do women have to do with age to be wanted and feel wanted? What peace must come when you can let down the glamour after the day and just be you? Can’t age be honored and cherished without having to put on such a show? Not to say one lets loose of oneself to the point that there is complete loss of self-respect, but all women have to do even when they’re older to keep up appearances seems to have a bit of heart ache. Do feel better soon, poetess.
Amazing poetry. Hoping you feel better soon.
Resonating with your poem (as I often do).
And your book arrived a few minutes ago – thank you, thank you! Can’t wait to start reading!!
I hope you feel well enough to write more soon. Sending good thoughts for your health….still wish I could wave a magic wand over us both. 💕
I like this one very much xxx
Beautiful – live long, love long.
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TheFeatheredSleep – a poem of youth, age, and love
When we have the comfort of another and love and loyalty too, everything else fades away. It’s good to see you reposting your work, but hopefully, each passing day will get easier to endure.
Oh how I adore this
love this poignant poem. Hope you are better soon
Wonderfully poignant!
Amazing! This made me think of some of the last poems I wrote. Posted my first post for this year. I’m also chronically ill. Beween founding out my diagnoses, starting a job, getting use to medication, things have been hectic, lost my fire to write. But catching up on all my favourite bloggers, I’m determined to get back on track. Thank you for your beautiful poem!
Such a beautiful rendition of love’s passage through time
Loved the poem 🙂
Get well soon dear 🙂
Although I am not a woman, I found this very calming and peaceful as I deal with a male’s aging process and view toward a next life.
Damn you’re good!
aww… I want you to feel young again dear just like that a the end.. to get your “healthy” life back …instead of getting cheated by time right now…pulling at you down a road of pain you don’t deserve…its not fair… I want this to break sooner than later for you… I want to hear that new poem one day in how you are free of it…and your body is whole…and you are whole again with a change of focus to your mind…and your being is just lighter in all ways for it. I want that for you…. love you sister dear P
This is lovely.
Wow! Thank you for sharing and get better soon!!!!!! ☺️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
💓 grateful prayerfully 💓
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