A Number

Elasticity
Cause for celebration
Cause for regret
Change
The child I am
The child I was
The betrayal of the body
Non reflective of mind
The betrayal of the mind
Fear
Forward stumbling of numbers
Perspective
Recollection
Predilection
Reconciliation
Acceptance
We all die
Time
Passage and gone by
The mile marker years
Childhoods end
Virginity
Drinking age
The geographical
Crisis of early middle age
Marriage
Betrayal
Divorce
Move
Move again
Home
The loss of youth reflected in the faces of the young
The missed
The regrets
The mistakes
The bridges burned
Moments of focus and pedestal
Forks in the road
Blades of decision
An irrevocable cut
Blood under fingernails
Measure
Landmark
Imprint
Motion
Commotion
To settle
To compromise
Old
Age is but a number
Except to those experiencing it
Acceptance
Rage
A fate understood
The present informs the past
An unreliable narrator
Memory
Horror
The weight of the wait