shazbat

Aug 20, 2009 ⭐ View statistics (Premium feature)

I never saw it coming

It just crept up unawares

Probably this morning

Whilst I was still upstairs

I thought I caught a glimpse

As I had my tea and toast

For just a fleeting moment

Like a phantom or a ghost

It was later that it hit me

And the feeling left me cold

I realised that suddenly

I’d gotten bloody old

Looking in the mirror

For reflections never lie

I saw a total stranger

And he looked me in the eye

Reflecting on the image

And the face that I could see

Sadly I concluded

That this, was really me

……………………………….......I never saw it coming

— shazbat, Aug 20, 2009

About This Poem

About the Author

Region, Country: Norfolk, UK, GBR

Favorite Poets: Kipling, T.S Eliot, Hilaire Belloc, Ogden Nash, Spike Milligan and many more.

Critiques

yenti

16 years 9 months ago

Shazbat

A great little piece but why Oh why did you have to go and clean those damn mirrors, mine have been destroyed or painted over LOL Great write, Yours Ian.T

Barbara Writes

16 years 9 months ago

Great write I enjoyed this much. Sorry I got your name wrong. I've been trying to learn names again. ~~~~~~~~~ Be whoever you are At all times, and Remember that Because of this, people will Always Respect, and Admire you ©2008Leonard Respectfully Yours, Barbara

Janice Pearce

16 years 9 months ago

I never saw it coming

Why just this morning, oh never mind. Great write you sure did get a laugh out of me, first one all day! _________________________________________________ Income-tax forms should be more realistic by allowing the taxpayer to list "Uncle Sam" as a dependent Anonymous

shazbat

16 years 8 months ago

Thanks Janice, its always

Thanks Janice, its always good to start the day with a smile John

Kenneth Sharp

16 years 9 months ago

Wonderful...

This is an excellent piece. I loved the flow and pacing that you injected into this potent work. Time and its creeping influence, something that I think deeply resonates within most people. Great job capturing the sudden angst of the aging process.

shazbat

16 years 8 months ago

Kenneth, thank you so much

Kenneth, thank you so much for your positive comment, age has a habit of creeping up oh so slowly and then revealing itself only after it has ravaged your features beyond recognition, John

Kenneth Sharp

16 years 9 months ago

Wonderful...

Kailashana

16 years 9 months ago

John, you bloody well crack

John, you bloody well crack me up. Now hand me a younger-looking mirror. ~A "If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is wound up in mine, then let us work together." Aboriginal Activist Group, Queensland, 1970's

shazbat

16 years 8 months ago

Turning the lighting down

Turning the lighting down can knock years off of your reflection John

Kailashana

16 years 8 months ago

Actually I look better in

Actually I look better in full sunlight. It's the shadows that make one look old. hehehehe. ~A

shazbat

16 years 8 months ago

Personally I look like an

Personally I look like an Adonis when its pitch black and with a blindfold John

Hooded Stranger

16 years 9 months ago

Superb

Great structure and rhyming...hilarious, but so bloody true! First good smile of the day...thank you. East Anglia?...I am originally from Colchester, Essex. cheers, HS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- "With all that I am and all that I could be, I walk this earth and yet nobody sees me".

shazbat

16 years 8 months ago

Nice to know that you

Nice to know that you enjoyed it and that it made you smile. I'm in Dereham near Norwich, my daughter lives in Colly though. John