IRRELEVANT

POEM-When you realize the world has moved on and you are now...

No one tells you the truths about aging
and the cruelest cut of all?
When your music is now muzac
playing in the mall

The actors now look like children
Youth glowing from within
While I curse the hair that's shown up
in places it's never been

Inside I feel I'm ageless, my mind
not bound by time
Though my body tells me otherwise;
rhythms without rhyme

I know Youth can not see me
beneath this hair of gray
My wisdom is not valued
when Youth bars the way

Being part of a 'target market'
ends at 49
I am Irrelevant now just

one toke over the line

A tame and toothless tabby
where once a lion roared
I find my wings now grounded
where once an eagle soared

My rooms of dreams now empty
all innocence burned away
So many lessons I would share
If you thought I had something to say.

I woke up one day not long ago
still believing I could start anew
Until I suddenly realized
I'm now irrelevant  to you...

"Your youth is no handicap, It's what makes you thirsty"
...Harry Chapin-"There Only Was One Choice" from Dance Band on the Titanic" album/CD

Reviews

[Melanie Jane Boicourt S..]

"My room of dreams now empty
innocence burned away
So many lessons I would share
If you thought I had something to say."

You have a lot to say my dear. Plus, you are very good at saying it. Again there is no other review on this writing and it is brilliant and needs to be shared.
Love All,
Mejasha