Don't Age. Not Just Yet

Don't Age. Not Just Yet

A Poem by Ada Pacia

Gray! whites! I see them through her hair, and I’m frozen. 

Just yesterday, I held and smoothed those thick inky strands.

Just yesterday, they cascaded black and heavy, 

Draping full that what lies beneath is a mystery.

 

How could it be that now it’s stained with ashes,

The distance I can measure even just by my bare eyes,

They float as light as the kite even when the wind is nowhere,

That what lies beneath it’s now shamelessly staring.

 

She smiles, soft little folds fork from the edge of her eyes. 

I hold her hands, they still look mine.

But her folds resemble a compressed ripples of waves,

And her palm as rough as a freshly cut wood.

 

This just can’t be real...

 

It was just yesterday, she’s patting my cheeks, 

Forcing me to wake up and have a bath.

It was just yesterday, she’s holding my hands,

Dragging me to school.

 

How could things turned out to be so different,

If yesterday was totally different, how will things be tomorrow?

If this is reality, I’m silently and inwardly shouting and blaming.

Everything inside me is revolting, wrestling and breaking.

 

Looking at her, tears are burning me inside out,

Causing my wounds smoking with pain,

Rubbing the pain with a new-found guilt.

Where were you? What were you doing?

 

Please! Stop from changing too fast. 

Please. She’s special.

Please. I love her.

Please. Make her young again.

© 2015 Ada Pacia


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Ada Pacia
Ada Pacia

Philippines



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