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Lisa Gould
Lisa Gould

I am 38 years old and started writing poetry quite recently, I have always loved English and reading and my favourite poets are Wilfred Owen, WH Auden and Roger Mcgough. I trained as a Broadcast journalist but now teach yoga. I was moved to write the poem I have submitted from seeing my nan dealing with life as she got older, following this the words for other peoms seem to enter my head freely and I have since writeen a few more poems.

Old by Lisa Gould


Welcome to your life you once had a ball, singing, dancing, laughing like you had it all.

You worked tirelessly to reap the rewards of success, cars, clothes, houses, and the life that you loved best.

You celebrated birthdays, all of your ages, you lived for every minute and thinking you had ages.

The mirror can see you are older now and you start to think why and how?

But you are getting older, older with your age, you realise the frailty of your body – your cage.

They now undress you, help you into bed, they brush your once dark, now, silver locks so fragile on your head.

You now get fed at 9, 1, and 5, yes, yes, you it’s you and you’re still alive, as you feel the tiredness now and slumber into bliss you ask yourself this question;

‘How did it come to this?’

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