I Never Saw It Coming

shazbat on Aug 20, 2009

It will creep up on you when you least expect it.

I never saw it coming

It just crept up unawares

Probably this morning

Whilst I was still upstairs

I thought I caught a glimpse

As I had my tea and toast

For just a fleeting moment

Like a phantom or a ghost

It was later that it hit me

And the feeling left me cold

I realised that suddenly

I’d gotten bloody old

Looking in the mirror

For reflections never lie

I saw a total stranger

And he looked me in the eye

Reflecting on the image

And all that I could see

Sadly I concluded

That this was really me

…………………………………….I never saw it coming

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Aldrin A Wilding West on Aug 20, 2009
Nice write…..but move on. Pluck those eyebrows, shave the nostril and ear hair away, shave those greying whiskers, have a hair cut and moisturise. 10 years younger……sinch !

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