Age

Untitled - Claire Hegarty© 2005

I see the way your shoulders droop
and that in your walk there is a stoop, 
the years are catching up with you 
as years eventually tend to do, 
Your once sure foot is now 
unsteady 
and for your decline, 
I am not ready 
but yet your mind is still 
astute, 
and there you still relive your youth. 

Though you are ageing 
gracefully, 
it keeps creeping up 
steathily, 
to some it creeps invisibly 
but it's not unnoticeable to me, 
It breaks my heart and always 
will, 
that I can't make the time
stand still, 
and from this ageing make you free 
and young as in past memory
but I am so glad you are still with me...