Welcome to Cozy Poetry Corner by Debra A Winter (Richter)

“I Have Wrinkles”

 Oh no, I’ve got wrinkles, lots not just one.

Don’t look, Oops, here’s another one!

I tried to fight it with make-up, it’s no use;

Give me a glass of the old prune juice.

Time keeps moving; this I can’t stop.

I don’t need a walker yet to shop.

A wrinkle here, a wrinkle there;

Trying to cover them up–wouldn’t be fair.

I’m growing old, day in, day out…

I can’t complain or even shout.

Mother Nature’s showing me a new beauty.

I’m still Grandpa’s lovable cutie. 

My legs are growing tired as I walk.

Young people look to me as I talk…

I’ll give my opinion, as old folks do;

Weather it may or may not be true.

Years of experience, opinions surely pay off;

Excuse me for a minute, please–while I cough.

See, I’m not used to talking to mirror all this idle talk.

As I brush my hair reading for my daily walk.

My fingers aren’t yet arthritic and frail.

My skin is becoming more wrinkled and paler.

I guess this means I’m surely becoming older.

My complexion is not perfectly smooth like gold. 

I’ll live with my well earned wrinkles, why not.

It’s better than being someone I’m not!