Age Old Problem

AGE OLD PROBLEM    by Wanda VanHoy Smith
 
The poets problem is she doesn’t recognize her age
who is that stranger in the mirror?
she doesn’t believe that years count.
Feelings count and love counts
The IRS counts to tax our lives.
Accountants count in search of loopholes
Mathematicians count right angles and triangles
Artists try all angles and want to count
Poets work to make every word count
because trite no account  ideas add up
Musicians count to make us waltz or swing
She counts all her hugs and kisses
and lives her life like a sonnet
wants to end it like a couplet
but she’s not ready to delete it yet..