Her age, the years She's collected upon her wrinkled hands Memories flickering As she traces the decades and Almost a century Upon the mirror she faces The graying of Grace When left to it's own devices How loneliness slowly Feeds off the tears recollection Becomes malady & enemy She abandons tracing her years by finger Retract mental claw, Rather without reason instead Gaze into her own eyes A reflection from whence she recognizes the youth she was The beautiful the newness Of awe, not fear, A life she reflects upon .. At the ends of our dreaming, at the edge of it's landscape... The unknown, why fear ? Flying not toward death But wake to a new breadth...