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.