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Don`t Look Now?
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Frail Travelers, deftly flickering over the flowers;
Of living flowers against the heedless blue
Of summer days, what sends them dancing through
This fiery-blossomed revel of the hours?
Theirs are the musing silences between
The enraptured crying of shrill birds that make
Heaven in the wood while summer dawns awake;
And theirs the faintest winds that hush the green.
And they are as my soul that wings its way
Out of the starlit dimness into morn:
And they are as my tremulous being--born
To know but this, the phantom glare of day.
n "Butterflies", Siegfried Sassoon, 1920
The evolution of our bodies as they age is a most amazing metamorphosis.
It’s like watching the beautiful butterfly turn back into that hairy, wrinkled,
funny looking caterpillar. Pieces and parts are not failing us,
but most certainly changing. Only to emerge with a new self.
Let’s look at the new 40(50)+ alphabet for an update:
Adult Acne
Alternative medicine
Assisted care
Don’t look now....
Bi-focal
Bi-annual
By-stander, but
Don’t look now....
Crows feet? *see
L’s
Cellulite
Can’t have’s, way too many to list
Don’t look now...
Those Damned D’s:
Dyed hair
Dry skin
Double chin
Drooping skin
Dimpled knees, you know - the ones we would make fun of on older women?
No definition to the knee area, looked more like rhinoceros skin?
Well...
Don’t look now.....
Ears, they elongate. But that doesn’t improve our hearing capacity, so why?
Eyesight, what a challenge that has become.
Don’t look now.....
Fat and
Flatulence, hand in hand
Facelifts *see S’s
Don’t look now.....
Two very dreaded, telling words:
Grey hair, much as we try, it keeps Glistening
Gravity, it keeps us Grounded and pulls at the skin, pulls at a few other things too,
like the downward ascension of breasts and posteriors, earlobes and noses.
Not even going to talk about what droops on our men!
I for one am a bit tired of trying to defy the enormous force of the
gravitational pull on my body. Don’t look now.....
Historians are what we’ve become….
Hormone Replacement Therapy – enough said
Hearing, it’s going, going….
Don’t look now.....
Incontinence, boy what is that about?
Add another word to our increasing vocabulary,
and don’t sneeze…
Don't Look now.....
We now Jiggle like Jell-O
*see
W’s
Laugh Lines,
Let’s have Lots of them!
Don’t look now....
Memory, can’t do with out it, but sure have a hard time finding it sometimes.
Where did I put that?
Motivation, well, it exists in all of us, but the degree of drive is well,
not as urgent as we move forward in time. Now we re-organize our priorities
to match our motivation and drive. Or is it we re-organize our motivation
and drive to match our priorities? Or do we re-organize our drive
to match our priorities and motivation?
Don’t look now.....
What used to be Perky and Pointed is
Pleasing and
Plump, 
Pliable and Pouchy
Don’t look now.....
The Terrible T’s,
at one time we were concerned about our children and the Terrible Two’s,
but Through Thick and Thin our bodies are with us…
Thick waist
Thick thighs
Thick ankles
Thinning hair and Thinning skin
Don’t look now....
Varicose
Veins are thinly
Veiled with
our delicate Vanity in our Victorian shape
Don’t look now.....
Wonderful W’s? I don’t think so
Wrinkles
Waffle (no, not food)
Wiggle * see J
Wattle, can we talk about the under arm wattle!
Don’t look now....
Yoga for the body and soul
Used to be I could languish in the tub reading and reflecting, languishing
now equates a stiff back.
I have to put my glasses on to shave my legs.
I wear my reading glasses just to sign my name,
AND now I have to use a magnifying mirror to apply make-up and
Oh, can we talk about the chin and mustache hairs!?
Remember that caterpillar with the funny hairs sticking out all over?
No longer do I need to pluck my eyebrows, I trim them with scissors.
Just have to top them off from time to time.
Don’t look now....
So we try the anti-aging vitamin pills, push-up miracle bras, under eye re-vitalizing cream,
alpha hydroxy retinol skin lotions, and then have to turn around and use anti-pimple lotions.
The creams reversed the process alright. No Thanks! But what’s left when we undo all that?!
Don’t look now..…….
Are you Ready?
Just ourselves –plain, simple
and beautiful!
Well, I’m going to pop a couple of cool mint tea bags on my old bags,
elevate my hoofs and reflect on more signs of the coming of age.
That’s the best part. I’m going to spend time getting acquainted
with the new me and rejoice in the coming of my new age.
P.S. Rejoice with Humor and Grace
The metamorphosis is complete:
P.S.S. Don’t worry, I forgot some of the letters, or was it intentional?
R.K.Habunek 6/7/00©
http://www.butterflyalphabet.com/