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littlemissmartypants

(22,513 posts) Thu Mar 11, 2021, 02:46 PM Mar 2021

I am not old. By poet Samantha Reynolds.

DECEMBER 7TH, 2011
MUSINGS ON LIFE

I am not old

I am not old, she said,
I am rare.

I am the standing ovation
at the end of the play.

I am the retrospective
of my life
as art.

I am the hours
connected like dots
into good sense.

I am the fullness
of existing.

You think I am waiting to die
but I am waiting to be found.

I am a treasure,
I am a map,
these wrinkles are imprints
of my journey.

Ask me
anything.

Samantha Reynolds

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