Age and Changes: a Poet's Reflection

Those shades of mediocrity have diminished fast with age As older views, diminished hues, have provided a new stage Upon the center portion, where now I make my stands I stand so tall, despite it all, giving not to peer demands For lying there within my soul, my person, my true being A special one, endeared with sun, one that’s so worth seeing For the importance of myself has escalated over time Allowing me, to be set free and to live within my rhyme