Trey Pearson Poet Cowboy Poetry

Age Is Not

Age is not...

Age is not the cracks in rock,
	or the wear and tear from working.
Age isn't a body bent or breaking 
	from long days in the saddle, hurting.
Age is not the days in the shop
	or frail bones that don't bounce no more.
Nor is it remembering who you saw
	in the mirror 25 years ago.

Not a faded picture, dental fixtures, 
	unsolicited sleeping sounds
		or white hairs on your crown.
Not a missing finger,
	missing teeth, abounding scars,
		Aches and pains or joints ajar. 
Not preferences for 'past tenses'
	lamenting on broken fences
		and young horseback adventures,
Or growin disenchanted 
	For cold and rainy weather
		thirst and hunger
			or for sleeping under stars. 


Instead,
What if an older man, is still a young man 
	by way	of what he knows 
		versus what he regrets.
Then,
By these same stackings,
	those old timers we look up to
		ain't even been born yet.

And then,
 by way of this thinking
	aging is only a changing 
		that happens when you believe what they're saying
			And forget
				who from day 1 you've always been.

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