Today's Truth

The tv blares

Its empty promises

Of laughter and easy sex.

If I look like her

Will I get laid?

And for a moment,

My 55 year old body

Remembers what it was

To look like that.

The tv goes off and

I go read a book.

Reviews

[ba_mcfarlane]

This is a moment well captured by your muse. I empathize concerning being part of the growing "grey nation." Yet, it is not all bad. The pleasures to be experienced by one's physical being are still there to be partaken. Bravo for this piece!!

[Audrey Howitt]

Thank you BA--

[Neville]

If nothing else Audrey, our left cerebral hemispheres, subjective perceptions and age correlate precisely.
I found this gem of yours almost by accident, just thumbing through your titles and bam, button pushed there it was before me to thoroughly enjoy... AGT's, Neville

[Audrey Howitt]

Thank you Neville--I had forgotten about this piece actually, but still feel it in my bones

[Neville]

My pleasure entirely. N

[Seshat Nidaba]

Hehe, I enjoyed the stark realism of this. In a time when people are obsessed to look young and yet more likely to be obese, I find health-care very perplexing. I think poems about aging are great, and sociologically you have to wonder at all the mental-illness in our cities due to the mixed messages we send our citizens, and our young.

So much of the social pressure is absurd, that's when you know the social reality we have constructed is a bit perverse.

[SkinlessFrank]

Yeah, and I remember that feeling of being able to run a mile in under six minutes thirty, like the body was made of pure energy. But turning off the TV is the right thing to do. Well put.

[FJ Davis]

Remember what Wordsworth wrote:

"What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now for ever taken from my sight
Though nothing can bring back the hour
of splendour in the grass,
of glory in the flower;
We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind."

For you, Audrey, so very, very much remains behind to be explored--so much, in the future, to be experienced.
That is also "Today's Truth."

[J. J. Nightingale]

WELL I AM 56 .. FEEL 100 .. SOME SAY I LOOK 46 .. WHAT THE HECK .. WE ARE WHAT WE ARE .. MY BODY LOOKS BETTER THAN I FEEL ! .. ALL THOSE REMEMBERINGS ARE STILL HERE .. ..

I CAN RELATE ! .. JASMINE

[Aidz]

In my head I still look 19 ok a few extra pounds and a lot less hair, add on subtract the other oh dear now Im depressed tim efor a book too