<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442719" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Stages</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">First of all...<br>I know it's not just all about me.<br>Only in my mind I am told.<br>And that seems to be aging rapidly! <br>As a glowing youth...<br>Dims to be conquered, <br>By an aging truth! <br>Overnight it seems.<br>Although many may refuse to agree with me.<br>Those into appearances and physicalities! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am not one to be talking about looks...<br>But let me say this, <br>No pages flipped through books<br>Prepares anyone for the stages of aging.<br>Or when to apply a night cheek lift! <br>To become disappointed with the results, <br>That sit unresisting to stay for a long visit! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Compliments on maintaining a youthfulness, <br>Stirs those in doubt about what is really meant...<br>By those unsolicited comments sent! <br>But pleased to get them without resentment.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There are those who may defy this process.<br>But when it noticibly starts...<br>A feeling of achievement begins to arrive, <br>Or a time gone by so quickly is realized! <br>Which gets many into denial fits! <br>Horrified that the time has come...<br>And that they too can not escape from this! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When a passing glance in a mirror, <br>Becomes a lingering stare...<br>What is seen is obvious.<br>And we all must become aware...<br>An aging has taken place, <br>To stay on one's face...<br>Not to go anywhere, <br>But to etch and trace.<br>Hopefully some allow...<br>And undergo with grace.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's the reality of these stages we go through! <br>At least 'some' do.<br>The ones who are not moisturizing...<br>To rid a wrinkle, <br>Or two.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">OR...<br>Those of us who make a fuss, <br>About a delayed aging process ordered...<br>Taking too long to come and is much overdue! <br>A special delivery was paid to insure a rush! <br>To subdue those lines that accrue...<br>With the stages of age some welcome unphased! <br>Praying this amazement of a quick aging, <br>Fades away!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Lawrence+S.+Pertillar">Lawrence S. Pertillar</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=442719" data-title="Stages de Lawrence S. Pertillar" data-description="First of all... I know it's not just all about me. Only in my mind I am told. And that seems to be aging rapidly! As a glowing youth... Dims to be conquered, By an aging truth! Overnight it seems. Although many may refuse to agree with me. Thos..."></div> </div> </div>

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