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Forty-five

  • Aug 3, 2025
  • 1 min read

Forty-five


This is a respectable age to be


no longer ‘just a pretty face’


no longer eyed for ‘one thing only’,


there are others, now, for that.


I can enjoy my body more


now that it’s scarred and lined and used,


it fits me better.


It takes work to keep it firm,


the skin smooth, the muscles taut.


My stomach will never be flat again


and the veins on my hands are always large


and always blue


and always sticking out.


Does it matter?


They are good hands, they work


and love and care.


The rings


are unimportant.

 
 
 

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