Here Today, Gone Tomorrow

This sonnet was inspired while celebrating my daughter’s birthday. Everyone was eating cake except me. I hardly ever eat sweets. “A moment on the lips, forever on the hips”. Anyway, while they were enjoying the moment, I began to muse. Later that evening I composed this: My daughter is older by a year today. She is thirty-seven. I wonder where The time has gone It seems to melt away. It’s like an imperceptible glacier Receding slowly, leaving once unseen Destruction bare, exposed to view, behind. I see what time has etched on me between A youth of yesteryear and current time. The mirror reflects wrinkled lines and spots. And not to mention, but I will! The gray. And like the ice, receding hair, a lot Is lost. My exploratory survey? It can be said, expressed this way: Ahem! I once had youth and now it’s gone, Amen.